A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
He walks abreast with his days and feels no shame in not 'studying a profession', for he does not postpone his life,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I do not wish to please him; I wish that he should wish to please me. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. A… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient distance, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Do your work, and I shall know you. Do your work, and you shall reinforce yourself.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong is what is against it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the exception than the rule. There is the man and his virtues. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Self reliance, the height and perfection of man, is reliance on God. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Live no longer to the expectation of these deceived and deceiving people with whom we converse. Say to them, O father, O… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories and criticism. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We are such lovers of self-reliance, that we excuse in a man many sins, if he will show us a complete satisfaction… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Another sort of false prayers are our regrets. Discontent is the way of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will. Regret calamities, if… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the… — 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
