The most Indian thing about the Indian is surely not his moccasins or his calumet, his wampum or his stone hatched, but… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I have heard that whoever loves is in no condition old. I have heard that whenever the name of man is spoken,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We teach boys to be such men as we are. We do not teach them to aspire to be all they can.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Always maintain your common sense and artful skills, and funnel it all into plain enough dealings. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When he is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something; ... he learns his ignorance, is cured of the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not. The… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I believe it is the conviction of the purest men, that the net amount of man and man does not much vary.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A man is the prisoner of his power. A topical memory makes him an almanac; a talent for debate, disputant; skill to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Among the multitude of scholars and authors, we feel no hallowing presence; we are sensible of a knack and skill rather than… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Commerce is a game of skill which everyone cannot play and few can play well. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes to get rich by credit, to get knowledge by raps on midnight tables, to learn… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A man known to us only as a celebrity in politics or in trade, gains largely in our esteem if we discover… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Criticism is infested with the cant of materialism, which assumes that manual skill and activity is the first merit of all men,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We postpone our literary work until we have more ripeness and skill to write, and we one day discover that our literary… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Money is of no value; it cannot spend itself. All depends on the skill of the spender. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Virtue runs before the muse, and defies her skill; she is rapt and doth refuse to wait a painter's will. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The power of a man increases steadily by continuance in one direction. He becomes acquainted with the resistances and with his own… — 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
