Let him go where he will, he can only find so much beauty or worth as he carries. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The House ...She lays her beams in music, In music every ore, To the candence of the whirling world Which dances round… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is guidance for each of us, and by lowly listening we shall hear the right word... — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
What we love that we have, but by desire we bereave ourselves of the love. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each one a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The effect of the indulgence of human affection is a certain cordial exhilaration. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The reason why all men honor love is because it looks up, and not down; aspires and not despairs. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
No man has ever had a point of pride that was not injurious to him. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Love is as much its demand as perception. Indeed, neither can be perfect without the other.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There can be no excess to love, none to knowledge, none to beauty. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If we will not interfere with our thought, but will act entirely, or see how the thing stands in God, we know the particular… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that the power… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
