Ralph Waldo Emerson

My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock, should find the time in my face.

My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock, should find the time in my face.

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?

Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel

Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel

Language is a city to the building of which every human being
brought a stone.
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Language is a city to the building of which every human being
brought a stone.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson,

As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.

As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.