Ralph Waldo Emerson ( 10 of 488 )
Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on someone without getting some on yourself.
Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on someone without getting some on yourself.
The foundations of a person are not in matter but in spirit.
The foundations of a person are not in matter but in spirit.
No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing.
No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing.
Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.
Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.
Our best thoughts come from others.
Our best thoughts come from others.
Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can.
Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can.
We are born believing. A man bears beliefs, as a tree bears apples.
We are born believing. A man bears beliefs, as a tree bears apples.
All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power.
All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power.
The first wealth is health.
The first wealth is health.
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.