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Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no...
There is no chance, and no anarchy, in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his...
The stupidity of...
The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.
Source: In
We aim above...
We aim above the mark to hit the mark.
Source:
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, (May 25...
There is no...
There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all...
There is always...
There is always room for a man of force, and he makes room for many.
Source: Power,...
There is no...
There is no knowledge that is not power.
Source: Old Age.
-- Ralph Waldo...
The torpid artist...
The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by...
We are afraid...
We are afraid of truth, afraid of fortune, afraid of death, and afraid of each other.
Things have their...
Things have their laws as well as men; things refuse to be trifled with.
Source:...
There is always...
There is always safety in valor.
Source: In
There is properly...
There is properly no history; only biography.
Source: Essays, 'History.'
--...
The true poem...
The true poem is the poet's mind.
Source: In
We are always...
We are always getting ready to live but never living.
Source: Journals, 1834.
--...
This time, like...
This time, like all times, is a very good one if we but know what to do with it.
There is no...
There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime and the earth is made of...
There is then...
There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page...
The wise man...
The wise man in the storm prays God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from...
We are as...
We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates.
Those who live...
Those who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who live to the present.
There is no...
There is no luck in literary reputation. They who make up the final verdict upon every book are not the partial and...