A beautiful woman is a practical poet, taming her savage mate, planting tenderness, hope and eloquence in all whom she approaches.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A believer a mind whose faith is consciousness is never disturbed because other persons do not yet see the fact which he sees.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A boy is in the parlor what the pit is in the playhouse; independent, irresponsible, looking out from his corner on such people and facts as pass by, he tries and sentences them on their merits, in the swift, summary way of boys, as good, bad, interesting, silly, eloquent, troublesome. He cumbers himself never about consequences, about interests: he gives an independent, genuine verdict. You must court him: he does not court you. But the man is, as it were, clapped into jail by his consciousness. As soon as he has once acted or spoken with éclat, he is a committed person, watched by the sympathy or the hatred of hundreds, whose affections must now enter into his account. There is no Lethe for this. Ah, that he could pass again into his neutrality! Who can thus avoid all pledges, and having observed, observe again from the same unaffected, unbiased, unbribable, unaffrighted innocence, must always be formidable.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Accept the place the divine providence has found for you.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Accept the place the divine providence has found for you the society of your contemporaries the connection of events.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A day is a miniature eternity.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Adopt the pace of nature her secret is patience.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson