A man should not go where he cannot carry his whole sphere or society with him,Mnot bodily, the whole circle of his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Happy is the house that shelters a friend! It might well be built, like a festal bower or arch, to entertain him… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The instincts of the ant are very unimportant, considered as the ants; but the moment a ray of relation is seen to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The secret of success lies never in the amount of money, but in the relation of income to outgo. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Science was false by being unpoetical. It assumed to explain a reptile or a mollusk, and isolated it-which is hunting for life… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Whenever a mind is simple and receives an old wisdom, old things pass away,--means, teachers, texts, temples fall; it lives now, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
...man is an analogist, and studies relations in all objects. He is placed in the center of beings, and a ray of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Art should exhilarate, and throw down the walls of circumstance on every side, awakening in the beholder the same sense of universal… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
My friends have come to me unsought. The great God gave them to me. By oldest right, by the divine affinity of… — 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
