The two parties which divide the state, the party of conservatism and that of innovation — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle another can be drawn — Ralph Waldo Emerson
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Presently we pass to some other object which rounds itself into a whole as did the first — Ralph Waldo Emerson
When a whole nation is roaring patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Stay at home in your mind. Don’t recite other people’s opinions. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The charming landscape which I saw this morning is indubitably made up of some 20 or 30 farms. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and adore. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is a train of moods like a string of beads; and as we pass through them they prove — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Conservatism makes no poetry, breathes no prayer, has no invention; it is all memory. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Conservatism stands on man’s confessed limitations; reform on his indisputable infinitude. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Make your own bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in your reading have been like — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The progress of religion is steadily to its identity with morals. Strength enters just as much as the moral element prevails. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The moral sense reappears today with the same morning newness that has been from of old the fountain of beauty and strength. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Play out the game, act well your part, and if the Gods have blundered, we will not. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
People wish to be settled: only as far as they are unsettled is there any hocpe for them. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
When I go into the garden with a spade, and dig a bed, I feel such an exhilaration and health — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The high prize of life, the crowning fortune of man, is to be born with a bias to some — Ralph Waldo Emerson
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of revolution — Ralph Waldo Emerson