Quotes from 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.

A creative economy is the fuel of magnificence.

Solvency is maintained by means of a national debt, on the principle, "If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?"

Let not the tie be mercenary, though the service is measured in money. Make yourself necessary to somebody. Do not make life hard to any.

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?

Wouldst thou shut up the avenues of ill, Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.

Men such as they are, very naturally seek money or power; and power because it is as good as money.

The whole value of the dime is in knowing what to do with it.

Money often costs too much

To get up each morning with the resolve to be happy is to set your own conditions to the events of each day. To do this is to condition circumstances instead of being conditioned by them.

When I first open my eyes upon the morning meadows and look out upon the beautiful world, I thank God I am alive.

When I bought my farm, I did not know what a bargain I had in the bluebirds, daffodils and thrushes; as little did I know what sublime mornings and sunsets I was buying.

The Italians are fond of red clothes, peacock plumes, and embroidery; and I remember one rainy morning in the city of Palermo, the street was ablaze with scarlet umbrellas.

Thanks to the morning light, Thanks to the foaming sea, To the uplands of New Hampshire, To the green-haired forest free.

In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs. RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks Greek architecture is the perfect flowering of geometry.

There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.

Men are what their mothers made them. You may as well ask a loom which weaves huckabuck why it does not make cashmere as to expect poetry from this engineer or a chemical discovery from that jobber.

I shun father and mother and wife and brother, when my genius calls me.

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.

Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories.

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Learn from it... tomorrow is a new day.

All life is an experiment.

The wise man in the storm prays God not for safety from danger but for deliverance from fear. It is the storm within which endangers him[,] not the storm without.

Neither you nor the world knows what you can do until you have tried.