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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is a...
Life is a search after power.
Source: Power.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, (May 25...
Men are conservatives...
Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after...
Nature is full...
Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under...
Make yourself necessary...
Make yourself necessary to someone.
Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed....
It is one...
It is one of the most beautiful compensations in life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping...
Life is a...
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
Source: In
Men are lenses...
Men are lenses through which we read our own minds.
Source: In Webster's Electronic...
Nature tells every...
Nature tells every secret once.
Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed....
Man is physically...
Man is physically as well as metaphysically a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad...
It is said...
It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can...
Light is the...
Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it...
Men love to...
Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Source: Society and Solitude,...
New arts destroy...
New arts destroy the old.
Source: In
Manners are the...
Manners are the happy way of doing things; each once a stroke of genius or of love --now repeated and hardened into...
It is the...
It is the privilege of any human work which is well done to invest the doer with a certain haughtiness. He can well...
Live, let live,...
Live, let live, and help live.
Source: In
Murder in the...
Murder in the murderer is no such ruinous thought as poets and romancers will have it; it does not unsettle him, or...
No great man...
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
Source: In Webster's Electronic...
Manners require time,...
Manners require time, as nothing is more vulgar than haste.
Source: In Webster's...
It requires a...
It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have it, it...