The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Come, see the north-wind's masonry, Out of an unseen quarry evermore Furnished with tile, the fierce artificer Curves his white bastions with… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The intellect is vagabond, and our system of education fosters restlessness. Our minds travel when our bodies are forced to stay at… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I am not much an advocate for traveling, and I observe that men run away to other countries because they are not… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is… — 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. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
For the most part, only the light characters travel. Who are you that have no task to keep you at home? — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places. At home I dream that at Naples,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
No doubt, to a man of sense, travel offers advantages. As many languages as he has, as many friends, as many arts… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The uses of travel are occasional, and short; but the best fruit it finds, when it finds it, is conversation; and this… — 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 not require a description of the countries towards which you sail. The description does not describe them to you, and to-… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Instead of feeling a poverty when we encounter a great man, let us treat the new comer like a travelling geologist, who… — 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
“I have no churlish objection to the circumnavigation of the globe, for the purposes of art, of study, and benevolence, so that… — 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
He who travels in search of something which he has not got, travels away from himself and grows old even in youth… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Travelling is a fool's paradise. We owe to our first journeys the discovery that place is nothing. At home I dream that… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me… — 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
