If you would learn to write, it is in the street you must learn it. Both for the vehicle and for the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Undoubtedly we have no questions to ask which are unanswerable. We must trust the perfection of the creation so far, as to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Not gold but only men can makeA people great and strong;Men who for truth and honors sakeStand fast and suffer long. Brave… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
One of our statesmen said, "The curse of this country is eloquent men." — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If you maintain a dead church, contribute to a dead Bible-society, vote with a great party either for the government or against… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If a man is at heart just, then in so far is he God; the safety of God, the immortality of God,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There are eyes, to be sure, that give no more admission into the man than blueberries. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The young man reveres men of genius, because, to speak truly, they are more himself than he is. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The wise and just man will always feel that he stands on his own feet; that he imparts strength to the state,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A man finds room in the few square inches of the face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Art is the need to create; but in its essence, immense and universal, it is impatient of working with lame or tied… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Poverty demoralizes. A man in debt is so far a slave; and Wall-street thinks it easy for a millionaire to be a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The unstable estimates of men crowd to him whose mind is filled with a truth, as the heaped waves of the Atlantic… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When nature removes a great man, people explore the horizon for a successor; but none comes, and none will. His class is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
What is it men love in Genius, but its infinite hope, which degrades all it has done? Genius counts all its miracles… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A man is a little thing whilst he works by and for himself, but, when he gives voice to the rules of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
All writing is by the grace of God. People do not deserve to have good writing, they are so pleased with bad.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The world is young: the former great men call to us affectionately. We too must write Bibles, to unite again the heavens… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is bad enough that our geniuses cannot do anything useful, but it is worse that no man is fit for society… — 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
I am not much an advocate for traveling, and I observe that men run away to other countries because they are not… — 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
