Culture is the suggestion, from certain best thoughts, that a man has a range of affinities through which he can modulate the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The consciousness in each man is a sliding scale, which identifies him now with the First Cause, and now with the flesh… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Wealth and poverty are seen for what they are. It begins to be seen that the poor are only they who feel… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Let none presume to measure the irregularities of Michael Angelo or Socrates by village scales. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Yet things are knowable! They are knowable, because, being from one, things correspond. There is a scale: and the correspondence of heaven… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There are men too superior to be seen except by a few, as there are notes too high for the scale of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is in the stomach of plants that development begins, and ends in the circles of the universe. 'Tis a long scale… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
This very certain that each man carries in his eye the exact indication of his rank in the immense scale of men,… — 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
