Quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson
Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. It is to bring another out of his bad sense into your good sense.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, there can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The basis of good manners is self-reliance. Necessity is the law of all who are not self-possessed.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Government exists to defend the weak and the poor and the injured party; the rich and the strong can better take care of themselves.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The evils of popular government appear greater than they are; there is compensation for them in spirit and energy it awakens.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Government has been a fossil: it should be a plant.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A great man stands on God. A small man stands on a great man.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is guidance for each of us, and by lowly listening we shall hear the right word.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To fill the hour??that is happiness.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To fill the hour; that is happiness to fill the hour, and leave no crevice for a repentance or an approval.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson