A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist. Ralph Waldo Emerson Man
Respect the child. Wait and see the new product of Nature. Nature loves analogies, but not repetitions. Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude. Ralph Waldo Emerson Nature
The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it forms is the second; and throughout nature this primary figure is repeated without end. Ralph Waldo Emerson Nature
Our moods do not believe in each other. To-day I am full of thoughts, and can write what I please. I see no reason why I should not have the same thought, the same power of expression, to-morrow. What I write, whilst I write it, seems the most natural thing in the world; but yesterday I saw a dreary vacuity in this direction in which now I see so much; and a month hence, I doubt not, I shall wonder who he was that wrote so many continuous pages. Alas for this infirm faith, this will not strenuous, this vast ebb of a vast flow! I am God in nature; I am a weed by the wall. Ralph Waldo Emerson Power Thinking
If you can not find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it? Ralph Waldo Emerson Truth
In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life, is always a child. Ralph Waldo Emerson Man
The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him. Ralph Waldo Emerson Spirituality Friendship
No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this. The only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong what is against it. Ralph Waldo Emerson Sacred
Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short in all management of human affairs. Ralph Waldo Emerson Politics Affairs
And truly it demands something godlike in him who cast off the common motives of humanity and ventured to trust himself for a taskmaster. Ralph Waldo Emerson Humanity
Good thoughts are no better than good dreams, unless they be executed! Ralph Waldo Emerson Dreams Thinking
Cause and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit, cannot be severed; for the effect already blooms in the cause, the end preexists in the means, the fruit in the seed. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing is secure but life, transition, the energizing spirit. Ralph Waldo Emerson Spirituality Spirit
To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun. At least they have a very superficial seeing. Ralph Waldo Emerson
The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood. Ralph Waldo Emerson Love Nature Spirit
We do what we must, and call it by the best names we can, and would fain have the praise of having intended the result which ensues. Ralph Waldo Emerson Praise
I find the Englishman to be him of all men who stands firmest in his shoes. They have in themselves what they value in their horses, mettle and bottom. Mettle: spirited, bottom: capacity to endure strain. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is the triumph of enthusiasm. Ralph Waldo Emerson World
