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 condition which high friendship demands is the ability to do without it. - 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...

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed. - Ralph Waldo Emerson. View more images...

There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day. - Ralph Waldo Emerson. View more images...

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children...to leave the world a better place...to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded. - 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...

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends. - Ralph Waldo Emerson. View more images...

If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground. - Ralph Waldo Emerson. View more images...

I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new. - Ralph Waldo Emerson. View more images...

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

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your reactions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. - Ralph Waldo Emerson. View more images...

Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performanceof this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours or ages that follow it. - Ralph Waldo Emerson. View more images...