The best university that can be recommended to a man of ideas is the gauntlet of the mobs.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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‘Tis very certain that each person carries in their eye the exact indication of their rank in the immense scale of humanity, and we are always learning to read it. A complete person should need no auxiliaries to their personal presence.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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You can never do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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That what we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The two parties which divide the state, the party of Conservatism and that of Innovation, are very old, and have disputed the possession of the world ever since it was made.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Whatever limits us we call Fate.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Thought is the property of him who can entertain it, and of him who can adequately place it.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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