To help the young soul, to add energy, inspire hope, and blow the coals into a useful flame; to redeem defeat by… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
He only is a well-made man who has a good determination. And the end of culture is not to destroy this, God… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
He cumbers himself never about consequences, about interests; he gives an independent, genuine verdict. You must court him: he does not court… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I quote another man's saying; unluckily, that other withdraws himself in the same way, and quotes me. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Man moves in all modes, by legs of horses, by wings of winds, by steam, by gas of balloon, by electricity, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Man Thinking must not be subdued by his instruments. Books are for the scholar's idle times. When he can read God directly,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is the doctrine of the popular music-masters, that whoever can speak can sing. So, probably, every man is eloquent once in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Every man is a borrower and a mimic, life is theatrical and literature a quotation. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
For, the sense of being which in calm hours rises, we know not how, in the soul, is not diverse from things,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If we live truly, we shall see truly. It is as easy for the strong man to be strong, as it is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
What is the city in which we sit here, but an aggregate of incongruous materials, which have obeyed the will of some… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A scholar is a candle which the love and desire of all men will light. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
What is the end of human life? It is not, believe me, the chief end of man that he should make a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the woods, too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Much of the wisdom of the world is not wisdom, and the most illuminated class of men are no doubt superior to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I cannot find language of sufficient energy to convey my sense of the sacredness of private integrity. All men, all things, the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When fear enters the heart of a man at hearing the names of candidates and the reading of laws that are proposed,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When good is near you, when you have life in yourself, it is not by any known or accustomed way; you shall… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The craft with which the world is made runs also into the mind and character of men. No man is quite sane;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Genial manners are good, and power of accommodation to any circumstance, but the high prize of life, the crowning fortune of a… — 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
