Ralph Waldo Emerson

There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

These times of ours are series and full of calamity, but all times are essentially alike. As soon as there is life there is danger.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Things added to things, as statistics, civil history, are inventories. Things used as language are inexhaustibly attractive.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thou art to me a delicious torment.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

To finish the moment, to find the journey’s end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions. The surest poison is time.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Unnerves his strength, invites his end.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Valor consists in the power of self recovery.

Ralph Waldo Emerson