I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.
By : Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.
By : Ralph Waldo Emerson
Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.
By : Ralph Waldo Emerson
There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.
By : Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.
By : Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.
By : Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
By : Ralph Waldo Emerson