In the sublimest flights of the soul, rectitude is never surmounted, love is never outgrown. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Perhaps love is only the highest symbol of friendship, as all other things seem symbols of love. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as two sides of an algebraic equation. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Beauty brings its own fancy price, for all that a man hath will he give for his love. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the last analysis, love is only the reflection of a man's own worthiness from other men. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nature forever puts a premium on reality. What is done for effect is seen to be done for effect; what is done… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Love is like a hunter, who cares not for the game when once caught, which he may have pursued with the most… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If with love thy heart has burned; If thy love is unreturned; Hide thy grief within thy breast, Though it tear thee… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the true mythology, Love is an immortal child, and Beauty leads him as a guide; nor can we express a deeper… — 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
The world still wants its poet-priest, a reconciler, who shall not trifle with Shakspeare the player, nor shall grope in graves with… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Self-love is, in almost all men, such an over-weight that they are incredulous of a man's habitual preference of the general good… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We say love is blind, and the figure of Cupid is drawn with a bandage around his eyes. Blind - yes, because… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I have heard that whoever loves is in no condition old. I have heard that whenever the name of man is spoken,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If with love thy heart has burned; If thy love is unreturned; Hide thy grief within thy breast, Though it tear thee… — 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
