Self sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Is not, indeed, every man a student, and do not all things exist for the student’s behoof? — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men wish to be saved from the mischiefs of their vices, but not from their vices. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
To the birds and trees he talks: Caesar of his leafy Rome, There the poet is at home. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Two sorts of writers possess genius: those who think, and those who cause others to think. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
This book of Montaigne the world has endorsed by translating it into all tongues. — Ralph Waldo Emerson