If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.
By : Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.
By : Ralph Waldo Emerson
In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.
By : Ralph Waldo Emerson
One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.
By : Ralph Waldo Emerson
People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.
By : Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.
By : Ralph Waldo Emerson