Virtue Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Beauty is the mark God sets upon virtue.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The virtue in most request is conformity.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only reward of virtue is virtue.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I think no virtue goes with size.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The highest virtue is always against the law.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The virtue of books is to be readable.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The order of things consents to virtue.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Tart, cathartic virtue.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

In self-trust all the virtues are comprehended.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Virtues are in the popular estimate rather the exception than the rule.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is genius as well in virtue as in intellect. 'Tis the doctrine of faith over works.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A weed is a plant whose virtue is not yet known.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is virtue yet in the hoe and the spade, for learned as well as for unlearned hands. And labor is everywhere…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Americans have many virtues, but they have not Faith and Hope. I know no two words whose meaning is more lost…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Virtue runs before the muse, and defies her skill; she is rapt and doth refuse to wait a painter's will.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Honor is venerable to us because it is no ephemeris. It is always ancient virtue. We worship it today because it is…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I think no virtue goes with size;The reason of all cowardiceIs, that men are overgrown,And, to be valiant, must come downTo the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the exception than the rule. There is the man and his virtues.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men imagine that they communicate their virtue or vice only by overt actions, and do not see that virtue or vice emit…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is a power in love to divine another's destiny better than that other can, and by heroic encouragements, hold him to…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

How much we forgive to those who yield us the rare spectacle of heroic manners! We will pardon them the want of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Jesus and Shakespeare are fragments of the soul, and by love I conquer and incorporate them in my own conscious domain. His…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men grind and grind in the mill of a truism, and nothing comes out but what was put in. But the moment…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fashion, though in a strange way, represents all manly virtue. It is virtue gone to seed: it is a kind of posthumous…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

By virtue of this science the poet is the Namer, or Language-maker, naming things sometimes after their appearance, sometimes after their essence,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

But there is no end to the praise of books, to the value of the library. Who shall estimate their influence on…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Without looking, then, to those extraordinary social influences which are now acting in precisely this direction, but only at whatis inevitably doing…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world. Society…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There never was a strong character that was not made strong by discipline of the will; there never was a strong people…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

What a benefit would the American government, not yet relieved of its extreme need, render to itself, and to every city, village…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I hear therefore with joy whatever is beginning to be said of the dignity and necessity of labor to every citizen. There…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The soul is no traveller; the wise man stays at home, and when his necessities, his duties, on any occasion call him…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Eloquence shows the power and possibility of man. There is one of whom we took no note, but on a certain occasion…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are many eyes that can detect and honor the prudent and household virtues; there are many that can discern Genius on…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The unique impression of Jesus upon mankind - whose name is not so much written as ploughed into the history of the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson