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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Infancy conforms to...
Infancy conforms to nobody: all conform to it, so that one babe commonly makes four or five out of the adults who...
In analyzing history...
In analyzing history do not be too profound, for often the causes are quite superficial.
If a man...
If a man knew anything, he would sit in a corner and be modest; but he is such an ignorant peacock, that he goes...
Heaven sometimes hedges...
Heaven sometimes hedges a rare character about with ungainliness and odium, as the burr that protects the...
I know of...
I know of no such unquestionable badge and ensign of a sovereign mind as that of tenacity of purpose. ....
Is the parent...
Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being? Whence, then, this worship of the...
Intellect annuls fate....
Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free.
Source: From Charles...
If a man...
If a man write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he build...
Here is the...
Here is the world, sound as a nut, perfect, not the smallest piece of chaos left, never a stitch nor an end, not a...
I look on...
I look on that man as happy, who, when there is a question of success, looks into his work for a...
It is long...
It is long ere we discover how rich we are. Our history, we are sure, is quite tame: we have nothing to write,...
Intellectual tasting of...
Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity.
Source: In
Imitation is suicide....
Imitation is suicide.
Source: In
I hate this...
I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes to get rich by credit, to get knowledge by raps on midnight tables, to...
If I cannot...
If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it; at any rate, brag.
It is the...
It is the eye which makes the horizon.
Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase,...
Is not marriage...
Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the...
In America the...
In America the geography is sublime, but the men are not; the inventions are excellent, but the inventors one is...
Ideas must work...
Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men, or they are no better than...
If a man...
If a man . . . can paint a landscape, and convey into souls and ochres all the enchantments of Spring or Autumn; it is...