There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
O day of days when we can read! the reader and the book, either without the other is naught. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God’s handwriting. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass. — Ralph Waldo Emerson