Ralph Waldo Emerson

No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing can work damage to me except myself; the harm that I sustain I carry about with me and never am a real sufferer except by my own fault.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing external to you has any power over you.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Of all the ways to lose a person, death is the kindest.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your hear that every day is the best day of the year.

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

Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.

Ralph Waldo Emerson