Ralph Waldo Emerson ( 10 of 488 )
Conversation is the laboratory and workshop of the student.
Conversation is the laboratory and workshop of the student.
Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today.
Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today.
All life is an experiment.
All life is an experiment.
As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.
As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.
I look on that man as happy, who, when there is a question of success, looks into his work for read more
I look on that man as happy, who, when there is a question of success, looks into his work for a reply.
All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man.
All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man.
Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.
Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.
The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I think no chair is so read more
The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I think no chair is so much needed.
Love of beauty is Taste. The creation of beauty is Art.
Love of beauty is Taste. The creation of beauty is Art.
We sometimes meet an original gentleman, who, if manners had not existed, would have invented them.
We sometimes meet an original gentleman, who, if manners had not existed, would have invented them.
