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
Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God’s handwriting. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this, I have said all. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Preaching is the expression of the moral sentiment in application to the duties of life. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Only as far as the masters of the world have called in nature to their aid, can they reach the height of magnificence. This is the meaning of their hanging-gardens, villas, garden-houses, islands, parks, and preserves. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream. – Ralph Waldo Emerson