What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.

Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Topics: Discovery Quotes, Virtue Quotes

Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old...

Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old...

People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.

People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.

I am treating you as my friend, asking you to share my present minuses in...

I am treating you as my friend, asking you to share my present minuses in...

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path...

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path...

God screens us evermore from premature ideas.

God screens us evermore from premature ideas.

Happy is the house that shelters a friend

Happy is the house that shelters a friend

Necessity does everything well.

Necessity does everything well.

It is very unhappy, but too late to be helped, the discovery we have made,...

It is very unhappy, but too late to be helped, the discovery we have made,...

There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every...

There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every...

I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

Between stimulus and response is our greatest power - the freedom to choose

Between stimulus and response is our greatest power - the freedom to choose

It takes a good deal of character to judge a person by his future instead...

It takes a good deal of character to judge a person by his future instead...

Culture is one thing and varnish is another.

Culture is one thing and varnish is another.

Noblesse oblige; or, superior advantages bind you to larger generosity

Noblesse oblige; or, superior advantages bind you to larger generosity

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year.

Tis the good reader that makes the good book.

Tis the good reader that makes the good book.

History is not the story of heroes entirely. It is often the story of cruelty...

History is not the story of heroes entirely. It is often the story of cruelty...

If I studied all my life, I couldn't think up half the number of funny...

If I studied all my life, I couldn't think up half the number of funny...