If a man can... make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door.
By : Ralph Waldo Emerson
Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
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
We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.
By : Ralph Waldo Emerson
The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.
By : Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.
By : Ralph Waldo Emerson