Ralph Waldo Emerson

Money often costs too much.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Neither you nor the world knows what you can do until you have tried.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

No change in circumstances can repair a defect of character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson