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...
No man can have society upon his own terms. If he seeks it, he must serve it too. - 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 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...
A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may think aloud. - 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...
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...
Good men must not obey the laws too well. - Ralph Waldo Emerson. View more images...
Four snakes gliding up and down a hollow for no purpose that I could see -- not to eat, not for love, but only gliding. - Ralph Waldo Emerson. View more images...