The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The French woman says, 'I am a woman and a Parisienne, and nothing foreign to me appears altogether human.' — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is the property of the religious spirit to be the most refining of all influences. No external advantages, no culture of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Happy is he who looks only into his work to know if it will succeed, never into the times or the public… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nothing is quite beautiful alone; nothing but is beautiful in the whole. A single object is only so far beautiful as it… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A house is made with walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The universal does not attract us until housed in an individual. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
You need someone who can inspire you to be what you know you can be — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The Greek epigram intimates that the force of love is not shown by the courting of beauty, but where the like desire… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken. (Despite) all the selfishness that chills like east winds the world,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The magnanimous know very well that they who give time, or money, or shelter, to the stranger--so it be done for love,… — 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