As soon as there is life there is danger. - Ralph Waldo Emerson. View more images...

There is a principle which is the basis of things, which all speech aims to say, and all action to evolve, a simple, quiet, undescribed, undescribable presence,dwelling very peacefully in us, our rightful lord: we are not to do, but to let do; not to work, but to be worked upon. - Ralph Waldo Emerson. View more images...

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art. - Ralph Waldo Emerson . View more images...

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. - Ralph Waldo Emerson. View more images...

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well. - Ralph Waldo Emerson. View more images...

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day. - Ralph Waldo Emerson. View more images...

In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs. - Ralph Waldo Emerson. View more images...

The city is recruited from the country. - Ralph Waldo Emerson. View more images...

The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood. - Ralph Waldo Emerson . View more images...

The condition which high friendship demands is the ability to do without it. - Ralph Waldo Emerson. View more images...

If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, tho it be in the woods. - Ralph Waldo Emerson. View more images...

Religion is to do right. It is to love, it is to serve, it is to think, it is to be humble. - Ralph Waldo Emerson. View more images...

Venus, when her son was lost,
Cried him up and down the coast,
In hamlets, palaces, and parks,
And told the truant by his marks,—
Golden curls, and quiver, and bow. - Ralph Waldo Emerson. View more images...

A strenuous soul hates cheap success. - Ralph Waldo Emerson. View more images...

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children...to leave the world a better place...to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded. - Ralph Waldo Emerson. View more images...