Quotes by Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like the bees, they must >>

Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men, >>

Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, >>

Quotations about War and Peace

It is far easier to make war than to make peace. >>

It is open to a war resister to judge between the combatants and wish >>

War is hell and all that, but it has a good deal to recommend it. It w >>

The triumphs of peace have been in some proximity to war. Whilst the hand was still familiar with the sword-hilt, whilst the habits of the camp were still visible in the port and complexion of the gentleman, his intellectual power culminated; the compression and tension of these stern conditions is a training for the finest and softest arts, and can rarely be compensated in tranquil times, except by some analogous vigor drawn from occupations as hardy as war.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo