Work and thou canst escape the reward whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Common sense is as rare as genius, - is the basis of genius (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
The perception of the comic is a tie of sympathy with other men, a pledge of sanity, and a protection from those perverse tendencies and gloomy insanities in which fine intellects sometimes lose themselves. A rogue alive to the ludicrous is still convertible. If that sense is lost, his fellow-men can do little for him. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
A man cannot utter two or three sentences without disclosing to intelligent ears precisely where he stands in life and thought, whether in the kingdom of the senses and the understanding, or in that of ideas and imagination, or in the realm of intuitions and duty. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
The human body is the magazine of inventions, the patent office, where are the models from which every hint is taken. All the tools and engines on earth are only extensions of its limbs and senses. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Moral qualities rule the world, but at short distances, the senses are despotic (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun. At least they have a very superficial seeing. The sun illuminates not only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and heart of the child. The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Do what you know and perception is converted into character. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Thought is the seed of action but action is as much its second form as thought is its first. It rises in thought, to the end that it may be uttered and acted. Always in proportion to the depth of its sense does it knock importunately at the gates of the soul, to be spoken, to be done. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
There can be no excess to love, none to knowledge, none to Beauty, when these attributes are considered in the purest sense. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Poverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow. Miss C. F. Forbes, (18171911). (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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