The secret of success in society is a certain heartiness and sympathy. - 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 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...

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...

If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground. - 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...

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends. - 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...

Character is what can do without success. - Ralph Waldo Emerson. View more images...

There is a principle which is the basis of things, which all speech aims to say, and all action to evolve, a simple, quiet, undescribed, undescribable presence,dwelling very peacefully in us, our rightful lord: we are not to do, but to let do; not to work, but to be worked upon. - Ralph Waldo Emerson. View more images...

I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons. - Ralph Waldo Emerson. View more images...

No great man ever complains of want of opportunities. - Ralph Waldo Emerson. View more images...