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"You cannot institute, without peril of charlatanism."
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), U.S. essayist, poet, philosopher. "Plato: New Readings," Representative Men (1850). |
"Far off, men swell, bully, and threaten; bring them hand to hand, and they are feeble folk."
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), U.S. essayist, poet, philosopher. "Prudence," Essays, First Series (1841, repr. 1847). |
"Prayer that craves a particular commodity, anything less than all good, is vicious."
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), U.S. essayist, poet, philosopher. "Self-Reliance," Essays, First Series (1841, repr. 1847). |
"Virtue is the adherence in action to the nature of things, and the nature of things makes it prevalent. It consists in a perpetual substitution of being for seeming, and with sublime propriety God is described as saying, I A—."
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), U.S. essayist, poet, philosopher. "Spiritual Laws," Essays, First Series (1841, repr. 1847). |
"There was never mystery
But 'tis figured in the flowers."
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), U.S. essayist, poet, philosopher. "The Apology," Poems (1847). |
"All things are known to the soul."
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), U.S. essayist, poet, philosopher. Speech, August 11, 1841, at Waterville College, Maine before the Society of the Adelphi. "The Method of Nature," Nature, Addresses, and Lectures (1849). |
"The breadth of the problem is great, for the poet is representative. He stands among partial men for the complete man, and apprises us not of his wealth, but of the commonwealth."
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), U.S. essayist, poet, philosopher. "The Poet," Essays, Second Series (1844). |
"So forth and brighter fares my stream,—
Who drink it shall not thirst again;
No darkness stains its equal gleam,
And ages drop in it like rain."
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), U.S. essayist, poet, philosopher. "Two Rivers," May-Day and Other Pieces (1867). |
"But to each thought and thing allied,
Is perfect Nature's every part,
Rooted in the mighty Heart."
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), U.S. essayist, poet, philosopher. "Woodnotes II," Poems (1847). |
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