It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have it, it requires ten times as much skill to keep it.

Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Topics: Boldness Quotes, Caution Quotes

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is a triumph of...

Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is a triumph of...

The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at...

The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at...

The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.

The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.

We judge of man's wisdom by his hope

We judge of man's wisdom by his hope

We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.

We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.

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...

All diseases run into one, old age.

All diseases run into one, old age.

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time...

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time...

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the...

Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the...

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.

Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness, -- an open and...

Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness, -- an open and...

The less government we have the better.

The less government we have the better.

Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it...

Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it...

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.

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

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

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path...

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path...

Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it...

Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it...

We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.

We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.