If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground. - Ralph Waldo Emerson. View more images...
A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may think aloud. - 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...
Whatever you do, you need courage. ... To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage which a soldier needs. - 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...
If we live truly, we shall see truly. - Ralph Waldo Emerson. View more images...
He that loveth maketh his own the grandeur he loves - Ralph Waldo Emerson. View more images...
It is not length of life, but depth of life. - Ralph Waldo Emerson. View more images...
Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half possession... Do that which is assigned to you, and you cannot hope too much or dare too much. - Ralph Waldo Emerson. View more images...
With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now. - Ralph Waldo Emerson. View more images...
The reason why all men honor love is because it looks up, and not down; aspires and not despairs. - Ralph Waldo Emerson. View more images...
The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one - 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...
What I must do is all that concerns me. This rule, equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is harder because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. - Ralph Waldo Emerson. View more images...
If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, tho it be in the woods. - Ralph Waldo Emerson. View more images...