"All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.












The years teach us much, which the days never knew.
More Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes
"There is creative reading as well as creative writing.
"Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
"Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius the stern friend, the cold, obscure shelter where moult the wings which will bear it farther than ...
"a man only knows what he's experienced
"Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experience.
"Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is like a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they ...
"There are all degrees of proficiency in the use men make of this instructive world where we are boarded and schooled and apprenticed. It is sufficient...
"When we are young, we spend much time and pains in filling our note-books with all definitions of Religion, Love, Poetry, Politics, Art, in the hope t...
"A world in the hand is worth two in the bush.
"We, as we read, must become Greeks, Romans, Turks, priest and king, martyr and executioner; must fasten these images to some reality in our secret exp...
"Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst...They are for nothing but to inspire.
"Only so much of life do I know as I have lived.
"That which we are, we shall teach, not voluntarily, but involuntarily. Thoughts come into our minds by avenues which we never left open, and thoughts ...