Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success. - Ralph Waldo Emerson. View more images...

How casually and unobservedly we make all our most valued acquaintances. - Ralph Waldo Emerson. View more images...

I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons. - Ralph Waldo Emerson. View more images...

No man can have society upon his own terms. If he seeks it, he must serve it too. - Ralph Waldo Emerson. View more images...

Hence arose the saying, "If I love you, what is that to you?" We say so, because we feel that what we love is not in your will, but above it. It is not you, but your radiance. It is that which you know not in yourself, and can never know. - Ralph Waldo Emerson. View more images...

A ruddy drop of manly blood
The surging sea outweighs;
The world uncertain comes and goes,
The lover rooted stays. - Ralph Waldo Emerson. View more images...

Love is the essence of God. - Ralph Waldo Emerson. View more images...

This world we live in is but thickened light. - Ralph Waldo Emerson. View more images...

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think. - Ralph Waldo Emerson. View more images...

We must be our own before we can be another's. - Ralph Waldo Emerson. View more images...

If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground. - Ralph Waldo Emerson. View more images...

Life is a successon of lessons, which must be lived to be understood. - Ralph Waldo Emerson. View more images...

Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air. - Ralph Waldo Emerson. View more images...

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed. - Ralph Waldo Emerson. View more images...

The world belongs to the energetic. - Ralph Waldo Emerson. View more images...