Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

The worst of charity is that the lives you are asked to preserve are not...

#Charity

So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it...

#Cheerfulness

It is as impossible for a man to be cheated by any one but himself,...

#Cheating

I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.

#Church, #Religion

The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.

#Civilization, #Coaches And Coaching, #Mankin

Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these...

#Commerce

For me, commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of...

#Commerce

All promise outruns performance.

#Commitment

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

#Common

Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.

#Common Sense, #Example, #Society

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

#Common Sense

Poverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common...

#Common Sense