Quotes by Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Every calamity is a spur and valuable hint. >>

Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing >>

Tobacco and opium have broad backs, and will cheerfully carry the load >>

Quotations about Invention and Inventor

I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill. >>

Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for >>

In my own time there have been inventions of this sort, transparent wi >>

Man is a shrewd inventor, and is ever taking the hint of a new machine from his own structure, adapting some secret of his own anatomy in iron, wood, and leather, to some required function in the work of the world.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo