Ralph Waldo Emerson

Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Doing well is the result of doing good. That’s what capitalism is all about.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every great man is unique.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every hero becomes a bore at last.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every ship that comes to America got its chart from Columbus.

Ralph Waldo Emerson