Flowers… are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it, and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
A more secret, sweet, and overpowering beauty appears to man when his heart and mind open to the sentiment of virtue. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men’s actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting. – 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