We fill the hands and nurseries of our children with all manner of dolls, drums and horses, withdrawing their eyes from the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is frivolous to fix pedantically the date of particular inventions. They have all been invented over and over fifty times. Man… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The world of men show like a comedy without laughter: populations, interests, government, history; 't is all toy figures in a toyhouse. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The world-spirit is a good swimmer, and storms and waves can not drown him. He snaps his fingers at laws; and so,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
As soon as a child has left the room his strewn toys become affecting. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible; but all natural objects make a kindred impression, when… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I like my boy with his endless sweet soliloquies and iterations and his utter inability to conceive why I should not leave… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Everybody we know surrounds himself with a fine house, fine books, conservatory, gardens, equipage, and all manner of toys, as screens to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
More than the diamond Koh-i-noor, which glitters among their crown jewels, they prize the dull pebble which is wiser than a man,… — 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
