Ralph Waldo Emerson

Flowers. . . are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.

Flowers. . . are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.

Born for success, he seemed
With grace to win, with heart to hold,
With shining gifts that read more

Born for success, he seemed
With grace to win, with heart to hold,
With shining gifts that took all eyes.

There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation read more

There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.

We live by our imagination, our admirations, and our sentiments.

We live by our imagination, our admirations, and our sentiments.

Man is physically as well as metaphysically a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, read more

Man is physically as well as metaphysically a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, and a misfit from the start.