Poverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense. - Ralph Waldo Emerson. View more images...
We seek our friend not sacredly, but with an adulterate passion which would appropriate him to ourselves - Ralph Waldo Emerson. View more images...
The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction. - Ralph Waldo Emerson. View more images...
All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. - Ralph Waldo Emerson. View more images...
To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived - that is to have succeeded - Ralph Waldo Emerson. View more images...
Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail - Ralph Waldo Emerson. View more images...
Only so much do I know, as I have lived - Ralph Waldo Emerson. View more images...
Though love repine, and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply, - 'Tis man's perdition to be safe When for the truth he ought to die - Ralph Waldo Emerson. View more images...
Character is what can do without success. - Ralph Waldo Emerson. View more images...
He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, while he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere. - Ralph Waldo Emerson. View more images...
Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect. - Ralph Waldo Emerson. View more images...
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. View more images...
Out of sleeping a waking, Out of waking a sleep. - Ralph Waldo Emerson. View more images...
Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle another can be drawn; that there is no end in nature, but every end is a beginning; that there is always another dawn risen on mid-noon, and under every deep a lower deep opens. - Ralph Waldo Emerson. View more images...
I do not wish to treat friendships daintily, but with the roughest courage. When they are real, they are not glass threads or frost-work, but the solidest thing we know. - Ralph Waldo Emerson. View more images...