A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
By : Ralph Waldo Emerson
The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.
By : Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.
By : Ralph Waldo Emerson
The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
By : Ralph Waldo Emerson
The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.
By : Ralph Waldo Emerson
All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.
By : Ralph Waldo Emerson
For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
By : Ralph Waldo Emerson
Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
By : Ralph Waldo Emerson