Quotes by Emerson, Ralph Waldo

If a man will kick a fact out of the window, when he comes back he fin >>

If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and ther >>

Words are alive; cut them and they bleed. >>

Quotations about Virtue

Virtue is reason which has become energy. >>

There are nine hundred and ninety-nine patrons of virtue to one virtuo >>

The time is always right to do what is right. >>

The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our virtues, or what we have always esteemed such, into the same pit that has consumed our grosser vices.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo