Ralph Waldo Emerson

Beauty without expression is boring.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Blessed are those who have no talent!

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

But it is a cold, lifeless business when you go to the shops to buy something, which does not represent your life and talent, but a goldsmith’s.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April’s breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Cities force growth, and make men talkative and entertaining, but they make them artificial.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Coal is a portable climate.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short in all management of human affairs.

Ralph Waldo Emerson