Quotes by Emerson, Ralph Waldo

As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a dise >>

Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-pull >>

The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough. >>

Quotations about Freedom

How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little >>

Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind. >>

Freedom all solace to man gives: He lives at ease that freely lives. >>

Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble like a Declaration of Independence, or the statute right to vote, by those who have never dared to think or to act.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo