Quote #15775
All our progress is an unfolding, like a vegetable bud. You have first an...
Category Archives: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quote #15789
Proverbs are the literature of reason, or the statements of absolute truth, without qualification....
Quote #15808
The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a...
Quote #15676
To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and...
Quote #15677
There are two classes of poets – the poets by education and practice, these...
Quote #15715
The imbecility of men is always inviting the impudence of power.
Quote #15747
Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of...
Quote #15752
Work is victory.
Quote #15592
Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol, and an audience is electrified.
Quote #15508
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of our own mind.