1442 Quotations by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- 461. I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries f ...

- 462. I look on that man as happy, who, when there is question of success, looks into his work for a reply ...

- 463. I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there bes ...

- 464. I pay the schoolmaster, but it is the school boys who educate my son.

- 465. I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.

- 466. I see her not dispirited, not weak, but well, remembering that she has seen dark times before, indee ...

- 467. I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, ser ...

- 468. I suffer whenever I see that common sight of a parent or senior imposing his opinion and way of thin ...

- 469. I suppose every old scholar has had the experience of reading something in a book which was signific ...

- 470. I wish to say what I think and feel today, with the proviso that tomorrow perhaps I shall contradict ...

- 471. I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.

- 472. I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening ...

- 473. I'm never wrong. I once thought I was wrong, turns out, I was mistaken.

- 474. Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men, or they are no better than dr ...

- 475. If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap, than his neigh ...

- 476. If a man can... make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door.

- 477. If a man carefully examines his thoughts, he will be surprised to find how much he lives in the futu ...

- 478. If a man knew anything, he would sit in a corner and be modest; but he is such an ignorant peacock, ...

- 479. If a man knows the law, find out, though he live in a pine shanty, and resort to him. And if a man c ...

- 480. If a man owns land, the land owns him.

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