Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great geniuses have the shortest biographies…

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men…

No man ever prayed heartily without learning something…

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom…

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine…

Every artist was first an amateur…

Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it…

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist…

Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams…

God screens us evermore from premature ideas…

When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it…

The highest revelation is that God is in every man…

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature…

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered…

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with…