Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
How much better when the whole land is a garden, and the people have grown up in the bowers of a paradise. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The worst feature of this double consciousness is, that the two lives, of the understanding and of the soul, which we lead,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The world when seen through a little child's eyes, greatly resembles paradise. Happiness is doing with a smile what you have to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places. At home I dream that at Naples,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nor count compartments of the floors, But mount to paradise By the stairway of surprise. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Infancy is the perpetual Messiah, which comes into the arms of fallen men, and pleads with them to return to paradise. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It happens to us once or twice in a lifetime to be drunk with some book which probably has some extraordinary relative… — 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
