Quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every man is a new method.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
In every man's memory, with the hours when life culminated are usually associated certain books which met his views.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If we will not interfere with our thought, but will act entirely, or see how the thing stands in God, we know the particular thing, and every thing, and every man.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Think me not unkind and rude That I walk alone in grove and glen; I go to the god of the wood To fetch his word to men.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every man is the inlet and may become the outlet of all there is in God.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no prosperity, trade, art, city, or great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will find it rooted in a thought of some individual man.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Of course, money will do after its kind, and will steadily work to unspiritualize and unchurch the people to whom it was bequeathed.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A creative economy is the fuel of magnificence.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We take care of our health; we lay up money; we make our roof tight, and our clothing sufficient; but who provides wisely that he shall not be wanting in the best property of all, -friends?
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wouldst thou shut up the avenues of ill, Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Money often costs too much
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When I first open my eyes upon the morning meadows and look out upon the beautiful world, I thank God I am alive.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson