They can conquer who believe they can. He has not learned the first lesson in life who does not every day surmount a fear. - Ralph Waldo Emerson. View more images...

It is not length of life, but depth of life. - Ralph Waldo Emerson. View more images...

Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can. - Ralph Waldo Emerson. View more images...

... truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. - Ralph Waldo Emerson . View more images...

Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life. - Ralph Waldo Emerson. View more images...

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. - Ralph Waldo Emerson. View more images...

Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail - Ralph Waldo Emerson. View more images...

Only so much do I know, as I have lived - Ralph Waldo Emerson. View more images...

Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial. - Ralph Waldo Emerson. View more images...

Washington, where an insignificant individual may trespass on a nation's time. - Ralph Waldo Emerson. View more images...

With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now. - Ralph Waldo Emerson. View more images...

The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried. - Ralph Waldo Emerson. View more images...

The solid, solid universe
Is pervious to Love;
With bandaged eyes he never errs,
Around, below, above.
His blinding light
He flingeth white
On God's and Satan's brood,
And reconciles
By mystic wiles
The evil and the good. - Ralph Waldo Emerson. View more images...

The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one - Ralph Waldo Emerson. View more images...

A chief event in life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us. - Ralph Waldo Emerson. View more images...