Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?

Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Topics: Elegance Quotes, Self Reliance Quotes

Evermore in the world is this marvelous balance of beauty and disgust, magnificence and rats

Evermore in the world is this marvelous balance of beauty and disgust, magnificence and rats

Health is the first muse, and sleep is the condition to produce it

Health is the first muse, and sleep is the condition to produce it

Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each once a stroke of genius or...

Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each once a stroke of genius or...

Every man passes his life in the search after friendship.

Every man passes his life in the search after friendship.

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Go often to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Go often to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Love and you shall be loved

Love and you shall be loved

The man who has seen the rising moon break out of the clouds at midnight...

The man who has seen the rising moon break out of the clouds at midnight...

Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the...

Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the...

There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them...

There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them...

Thought is action in rehearsal

Thought is action in rehearsal

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will...

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will...

Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for...

Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for...

Be a little careful about your library. Do you foresee what you will do with...

Be a little careful about your library. Do you foresee what you will do with...

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

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

A fly is as untamable as a hyena.

A fly is as untamable as a hyena.

Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution...

Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution...

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived - that is...

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived - that is...

The most fundamental tragedy of my life is that the ones who I see do...

The most fundamental tragedy of my life is that the ones who I see do...

Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water.

Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water.