Quotes by Emerson, Ralph Waldo

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity. >>

A man's style is his mind's voice. Wooden minds, wooden voices. >>

Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. >>

Quotations about Pursuit

Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest. >>

The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain. >>

The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which find >>

The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo