Maxioms by Ralph Waldo Emerson
We do what we must, and call it by the best names.
We do what we must, and call it by the best names.
It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude after our own; read more
It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
The mind does not create what it perceives, any more than the eye creates the rose.
The mind does not create what it perceives, any more than the eye creates the rose.
Those who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who live to the present.
Those who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who live to the present.
The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause.
The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause.
