I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass. Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole. Ralph Waldo Emerson
The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode. Ralph Waldo Emerson
O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught. Ralph Waldo Emerson
The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye. Ralph Waldo Emerson