Maxioms by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Religion is to do right. It is to love, it is to serve, it is to think, it is to read more
Religion is to do right. It is to love, it is to serve, it is to think, it is to be humble.
The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze
The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze
If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or
can make better chairs read more
If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or
can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs,
than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his
house, tho it be in the woods. And if a man knows the law,
people will find it out, tho he live in a pine shanty, and resort
to him. And if a man can pipe or sing, so as to wrap the
prisoned soul in an elysium; or can paint landscape, and convey
into oils and ochers all the enchantments of spring or autumn; or
can liberate or intoxicate all people who hear him with delicious
songs and verses, 'tis certain that the secret can not be kept:
the first witness tells it to a second, and men go by fives and
tens and fifties to his door.
Extremes meet and there is no better example than the haughtiness of humility.
Extremes meet and there is no better example than the haughtiness of humility.
God enters by a private door into every individual.
God enters by a private door into every individual.
