Constitution Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong is what is against it.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A Judge may be a farmer; but he is not to geld his own pigs.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

But in every constitution some large degree of animal vigor is necessary as material foundation for the higher qualities of the art.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The whole constitution of property on its present tenures, is injurious, and its influence on persons deteriorating and degrading.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every rational creature has all nature for his dowry and estate. It is his, if he will. He may divest himself of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The judge weighs the arguments and puts a brave face on the matter, and since there must be a decision, decides as…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The world is always childish, and with each new gewgaw of a revolution or new constitution that it finds, thinks it shall…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The pest of society are the egotist, they are dull and bright, sacred and profane, course and fine. It is a disease…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The good judge is not he who does hair-splitting justice to every allegation, but who, aiming at substantial justice, rules something intelligible…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hence, instead of Man Thinking, we have the bookworm. Hence, the book-learned class, who value books, as such; not as related to…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Self-trust is the first secret of success, the belief that if you are here the authorities of the universe put you here,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are dull and bright, sacred and profane, coarse and fine egotists. It is a disease that, like influenza, falls on all…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The wise and just man will always feel that he stands on his own feet; that he imparts strength to the state,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have heard that whoever loves is in no condition old. I have heard that whenever the name of man is spoken,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A mob is a society obodies, voluntarily bereaving themselves oreason, and traversing its work. The mob is man, voluntarily descending to the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is wonderful how soon a piano gets into a log-hut on the frontier. You would think they found it under a…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast. Its fit hour of activity is night. Its actions are…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

War educates the senses, calls into action the will, perfects the physical constitution, brings men into such swift and close collision in…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The tendencies of the times favor the idea of self-government, and leave the individual, for all code, to the rewards and penalties…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing is arbitrary, nothing is insulated in beauty. It depends forever on the necessary and the useful. The plumage of the bird,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson