The new statement will comprise the skepticisms, as well as the faiths of society, and out of unbeliefs a creed shall be… — 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
There is one other reason for dressing well, namely that dogs respect it, and will not attack you in good clothes. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The domestic man, who loves no music so well as his kitchen clock, and the airs which the logs sing to him… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A man must be clothed with society, or we shall feel a certain bareness and poverty, as of a displaced and unfurnished… — 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
God made yeast, as well as dough, and loves fermentation just as dearly as he loves vegetation. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I like to have a person's knowledge comprehend more than one class of topics, one row of shelves. I like a person… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Being perfectly well-dressed gives a feeling of tranquillity that religion is powerless to bestow. — 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… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. He is rich who owns the day,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Every man who would do anything well, must come to it from a higher ground. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Why should I hasten to solve every riddle which life offers me? I am well assured that the Questioner, who brings me… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The field cannot be well seen from within the field. The astronomer must have his diameter of the earth's orbit as a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We sometimes observe that spoiled children contract a habit of annoying quite wantonly those who have charge of them, and seem tomeasure… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Besides, our action on each other, good as well as evil, is so incidental and at random, that we can seldom hear… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
So . . . I feel in regard to this aged England . . . pressed upon by transitions of trade and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air through innumerable variations. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Things have their laws as well as men, and things refuse to be trifled with. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Consider what you have in the smallest well-chosen library-a company of the wisest and wittiest men which can be plucked out of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We say the cows laid out Boston. Well, there are worse surveyors. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
This knot of nature is so well tied that nobody was ever cunning enough to find the two ends. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
'Well,' said Red Jacket [to someone complaining that he had not enough time], 'I suppose you have all there is.' — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If a man carefully examine his thoughts he will be surprised to find how much he lives in the future. His well-being… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
What is well done, I feel as if I did; what is ill-done, I reck not of. — 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
