A scholar is a candle which the love and desire of all men will light. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If you love and serve man, you cannot, by any hiding or stratagem, escape remuneration. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A cultivated man, wise to know and bold to perform, is the end to which nature works. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The best university that can be recommended to a man of ideas is the gauntlet of the mob. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
He is only rich who owns the day. There is no king, rich man, fairy, or demon who possesses such power as… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
As soon as the man is at one with God, he will not beg. He will then see prayer in all action. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Man is the will, and woman the sentiment. In this ship of humanity, Will is the rudder, and Sentiment the sail; when… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
All great natures delight in stability; all great men find eternity affirmed in the very promise of their faculties. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The saint and poet seek privacy to ends the most public and universal: and it is the secret of culture, to interest… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The world of men show like a comedy without laughter: populations, interests, government, history; 't is all toy figures in a toyhouse. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The mass of men worry themselves into nameless graves while here and there a great unselfish soul forgets himself into immortality. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I am old, yet I look at wise men and see that I am very young. I look over those stars yonder,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The civility of no race can be perfect whilst another race is degraded. It is a doctrine alike of the oldest and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
What terrible questions we are learning to ask! The former men believed in magic, by which temples, cities, and men were swallowed… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Every rational creature has all nature for his dowry and estate. It is his, if he will. He may divest himself of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds... A nation… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The most attractive class of people are those who are powerful obliquely, and not by the direct stroke: men of genius, but… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The time is coming when all men will see that the gift of God to the soul is not a vaunting, overpowering,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The world is nothing, the man is all; in yourself is the law of all nature, and you know not yet how… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We must have kings, we must have nobles; nature is always providing such in every society; only let us have the real… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There was never a man born so wise or good, but one or more companions came into the world with him, who… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If a man knows the law, find out, though he live in a pine shanty, and resort to him. And if a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The secret of success in society is a certain heartiness and sympathy. A man who is not happy in company, cannot find… — 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
The paid wealth which hundreds in the community acquire in trade, or by the incessant expansions of our population and arts, enchants… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The intelligent have a right over the ignorant, namely, the right of instructing them. The right punishment of one out of tune,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Doubt not, O poet, but persist. Say 'It is in me, and shall out.' Stand there, balked and dumb, stuttering and stammering,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Wherever a man comes, there comes revolution. The old is for slaves. — 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
No man has ever had a point of pride that was not injurious to him. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Men should take their knowledge from the Sun, the Moon and the Stars. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A man is the facade of a temple wherein all wisdom and all good abide. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
One man pins me to the wall, while with another I walk among the stars — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A man in the wrong may more easily be convinced than one half right. — 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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
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
In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel disappointment, a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
