Quotes by Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on someone without gettin >>

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in compariso >>

The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, >>

Quotations about Charity

The living need charity more than the dead. >>

Sometimes when I'm swimming, I think that maybe someday I'll put my re >>

A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for >>

Do not tell me of my obligation to put all poor men in good situations. Are they my poor? I tell thee, thou foolish philanthropist, that I grudge the dollar, the dime, the cent, I give to such men as do not belong to me and to whom I do not belong.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo