I am God in nature;
I am a weed by the wall.
I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes to get rich by credit, to get knowledge by raps on midnight tables, to learn the economy of the mind by phrenology, or skill without study, or mastery without apprenticeship.
Ralph Waldo EmersonIn order for one to learn the important lessons of life, one must first overcome a fear each day.
Ralph Waldo EmersonUse language what you will, you can never say anything but what you are.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTags: language
We are always getting ready to live, but never living.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character, and the greater it grows, the more is the mischief. Talent is mistaken for genius, a dogma or system for truth, ambition for greatness, ingenuity for poetry, sensuality for art.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe god of Victory is said to be one-handed, but Peace gives victory to both sides.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTags: peace
When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work, but the solidest things we can know.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTags: friendship reliability
Life is our dictionary
Ralph Waldo EmersonNothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTags: transcendentalism transcendentalists
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