We are as much strangers in nature, as we are aliens from God. We do not understand the notes of birds. The… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them. It depends on the mood of the man, whether he shall see… — 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
Man was born to be rich, or grow rich by use of his faculties, by the union of thought with nature. Property… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Tis weak and vicious people who cast the blame on Fate. The right use of Fate is to bring up our conduct… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The person who screams, or uses the superlative degree, or converses with heat puts whole drawing-rooms to flight. If you wish to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The use of literature is to afford us a platform whence we may command a view of our present life, a purchase… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Machinery is aggressive. The weaver becomes a web, the machinist a machine. If you do not use the tools, they use you.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I think I have done well, if I have acquired a new word from a good author; and my business with him… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture. Language is fossil poetry. As the limestone of the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The days come and go but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Each is liable to panic, which is exactly, the terror of ignorance surrendered to the imagination. Knowledge is the encourager, knowledge that… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The spirit only can teach. Not any profane man, not any sensual, not any liar, not any slave can teach, but only… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We forget ourselves and our destinies in health, and the chief use of temporary sickness is to remind us of these concerns. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The richest of all lords is Use, And ruddy Health the loftiest Muse. Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, Drink the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
They think him the best dressed man, whose dress is so fit for his use that you cannot notice or remember to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
And the glory of character is in affronting the horrors of depravity to draw thence new nobilities of power: as Art lives… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I thought as I rode in the cold pleasant light of Sunday morning how silent & passive nature offers, every morn, her… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of our science, and such is the mechanical determination of our age, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Let a man attain the highest and broadest culture that any American has possessed, then let him die by sea-storm, railroad collision,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The axioms of physics translate the laws of ethics. Thus, "the whole is greater than its part;" "reaction is equal to action;"… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We are adapted to infinity. We are hard to please, and love nothing which ends: and in nature is no end; but… — 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
