There is no country in which so absolute a homage is paid to wealth. In America there is a touch of shame… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The sign and credentials of the poet are that he announces that which no man foretold — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Man is not a farmer, or a professor, or an engineer, but he is all. Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Man is a shrewd inventor, and is ever taking the hint of a new machine from his own structure, adapting some secret… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The flowering of civilization is the finished man, the man of sense, of grace, of accomplishment, of social power--the gentleman. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Not in nature but in man is all the beauty and worth he sees. The world is very empty, and is indebted… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The man, who has seen the rising moon break out of the clouds at midnight, has been present like an archangel at… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Every man finds a sanction for his simplest claims and deeds, in decisions of his own mind, which he calls Truth and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I do not know what arguments mean in reference to any expression of a thought. I delight in telling what I think;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Men grind and grind in the mill of a truism, and nothing comes out but what was put in. But the moment… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We flee away from cities, but we bring The best of cities, these learned classifiers, Men knowing what they seek, armed eyes… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A man is a beggar who only lives to the useful, and, however he may serve as a pin or rivet in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Exaggeration is in the course of things. Nature sends no creature, no man into the world, without adding a small excess of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Is it not manifest that our academic institutions should have a wider scope; that they should not be timid and keep the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Vanity costs money, labor, horses, men, women, health and peace, and is still nothing at last,--a long way leading nowhere. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Go where he will, the wise man is at home, His hearth the earth, his hall the azure dome. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In our large cities, the population is godless, materialized,--no bond, no fellow-feeling, no enthusiasm. These are not men, but hungers, thirsts, fevers,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other, and thus makes… — 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
