Quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson
The reward of a thing well done is having done it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed, but our power to do so is increased.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and adore.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do the thing and you will have the power.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Americans have no faith, they rely on the power of a dollar; they are deaf to sentiment.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Money often costs too much, and power and pleasure are not cheap.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The counting-room maxims liberally expounded are laws of the Universe. The merchant's economy is a coarse symbol of the soul's economy. It is, to spend for power, and not for pleasure.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Of immortality, the soul, when well employed, is incurious. It is so well, that it is sure that it will be well. It asks no questions of the Supreme Power.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson