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Ralph Waldo Emerson
The wonder is...
The wonder is always new that any sane man can be a sailor.
Source: English Traits,...
The perception of...
The perception of the comic is a tie of sympathy with other men, a pledge of sanity, and a protection from those...
To judge from...
To judge from a single conversation, he made the impression of a narrow and very English mind; of one who paid for his...
There are men...
There are men whose manners have the same essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the...
The reason why...
The reason why men do not obey us is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
The world always...
The world always had the same bankrupt look, to foregoing ages as to us.
Source: In...
The prayer of...
The prayer of the farmer kneeling in his field to weed it, the prayer of the rower kneeling with the stroke of his...
To map out...
To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier...
There is a...
There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics, for we get rid of cant and...
The reward of...
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Source: Essays, 'New England...
The world we...
The world we live in is but thickened light.
Source: Lectures & Biographical...
The religion that...
The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.
Source:...
Trust instinct to...
Trust instinct to the end, even though you can give no reason.
Source: In
There is a...
There is a crack in everything God has made.
Source: In
The silence that...
The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest...
The years teach...
The years teach much which the days never know.
Source: In Webster's Electronic...
The rich mind...
The rich mind lies in the sun and sleeps, and is Nature.
Source: In
Trust thyself: every...
Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.
Source: Essays, ...
There is a...
There is a tendency for things to right themselves.
Source: In
The torments of...
The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders.
Source:...