Quotes by Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The first farmer was the first man. All historic nobility rests on the >>

The spirit of our American radicalism is destructive and aimless; it i >>

The chief mourner does not always attend the funeral. >>

Quotations about Self-respect

Without self-respect there can be no genuine success. Success won at t >>

The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect >>

Let a man then know his worth, and keep things under his feet. Let him >>

Let a man then know his worth, and keep things under his feet. Let him not peep or steal, or skulk up and down with the air of a charity-boy, a bastard, or an interloper.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo