Quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson
Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
One can never truly savor success until first tasting adversity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Children are all foreigners.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We live in a system of approximations. Every end is prospective of some other end, which is also temporary; a round and final success nowhere. We are encamped in nature, not domesticated.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is due to the triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
In the uttermost meaning of the words, thought is devout, and devotion is thought. Deep calls unto deep.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Live, let live, and help live
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Preaching is the expression of moral sentiments applied to the duties of life.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When there is sympathy, there needs but one wise man in a company and all are wise,--so, a blockhead makes a blockhead of his companion. Wonderful power to benumb possesses this brother.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson