American poet, philosopher, lecturer, and essayist of 19th century America.
An isolated and self-sufficient individual deeply involved in study of his social relationships, anti-slavery activity and
focus on his mature ethical thought.
His essays can be appreciated for their imaginative, paradoxical, accumulative and analogical rhetoric. This great man had a
strong influence on American poetry, his connections with the later philosophical movement of pragmatism, and his contributions
to the theory of democracy are remembered.
(1803-1882)
A great man is always willing to be little.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
A good indignation brings out all one's powers.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
People only see what they are prepared to see.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.
~ 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.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Science does not know its debt to imagination.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Revolutions go not backward.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
~ 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.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Scottish author and creator of the oft-quoted detective-master Sherlock Holmes.
Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Walter Scott and Guy de Maupassant, he became
one of the most prolific writer whose other works include historical novels, romances, science fiction stories,
plays and poetry, and non-fiction.
Doyle himself was not a good example of rational personality: he believed in fairies and was interested in occultism.
Sherlock Holmes stories have been translated into more than fifty languages, and made into plays, films, radio and
television series, a musical comedy, a ballet, cartoons, comic books, and advertisement.
(1859-1930)
To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.
~ Henry Ford
Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.
~ Isaac Asimov
