Quotes by Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character. >>

I cannot forgive a scholar his homeless despondency. >>

The ancestor of every action is thought. >>

Quotations about Happiness

One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be happy >>

All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wif >>

Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have. >>

I look on that man as happy, who, when there is question of success, looks into his work for a reply.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo