The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, ‘always do what you are afraid to do.’ — Ralph Waldo Emerson
In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have no hostility to nature, but a child’s love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
If a man can… make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never. — Ralph Waldo Emerson