Quotes by Emerson, Ralph Waldo

He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind he >>

We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn ove >>

The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we cal >>

Quotations about Example

Nothing is so contagious as an example. We never do great good or evil >>

Example is the best precept. >>

Nothing preaches better than the act. >>

The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome. They who lived with them found life glad and nutritious. Life is sweet and tolerable only in our belief in such society.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo