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...
If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground. - Ralph Waldo Emerson. View more images...
Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect. - Ralph Waldo Emerson. View more images...
Poverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense. - 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...
The condition which high friendship demands is the ability to do without it. - Ralph Waldo Emerson. View more images...
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 . View more images...
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air. - Ralph Waldo Emerson. View more images...
Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life. - Ralph Waldo Emerson. View more images...
The invariable mark of a dream is to see it come true. - Ralph Waldo Emerson. View more images...
Religion is to do right. It is to love, it is to serve, it is to think, it is to be humble. - Ralph Waldo Emerson. View more images...
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. - Ralph Waldo Emerson. View more images...
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it. - Ralph Waldo Emerson. View more images...
If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him. - Ralph Waldo Emerson. View more images...