Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes on Value
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Nothing can be preserved that is not good.
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If the colleges were better, if they ... had the power of imparting valuable thought, creative principles, truths which become powers, thoughts which become talents, - if they could cause that a mind not profound should become profound, - we should all rush to their gates: instead of contriving inducements to draw students, you would need to set police at the gates to keep order in the in-rushing multitude.
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A mollusk is a cheap edition [of man] with a suppression of the costlier illustrations, designed for dingy circulation, for shelving in an oyster-bank or among the seaweed.
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What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have yet to be discovered.
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A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
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Every man is wanted and no man is wanted much.
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Nor knowest thou what argument Thy life to thy neighbor's creed has lent: All are needed by each one, Nothing is fair or good alone.
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I wish that life should not be cheap, but sacred. I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant.
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Make yourself necessary to somebody. Do not make life hard to any.
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The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
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We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count.
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A masterpiece of art has in the mind a fixed place in the chain of being, as much as a plant or a crystal.
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Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody.
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Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.