--- title: "13 Corn Quotes By Ralph Waldo Emerson" description: "13 Corn quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Plus more from Ralph Waldo Emerson and more Corn sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/640/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_corn_though-the-wide-universe-is-full-of-good_2335791.png" --- > [though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/though-the-wide-universe-is-full-of-good-no-kernel-of-nourishing-corn/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/640/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_corn_though-the-wide-universe-is-full-of-good_2335791.png) > [I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/i-have-no-hostility-to-nature-but-a-child-s-love-to-it-i-expand-and/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e71/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_children_i-have-no-hostility-to-nature-but-a-chil_1296803.png) > [Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/money-is-the-representative-of-a-certain-quantity-of-corn-or-other/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3f7/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_bread_money-is-the-representative-of-a-certain_2155880.png) > [We are thus assisted by natural objects in the expression of particular meanings. But how great a language to convey such pepper-corn…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/we-are-thus-assisted-by-natural-objects-in-the-expression-of/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/019/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_corn_we-are-thus-assisted-by-natural-objects_1513265.png) > [When a man lives with God, his voice shall be as sweet as the murmur of the brook and rustle of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/when-a-man-lives-with-god-his-voice-shall-be-as-sweet-as-the-murmur/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/543/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_brooks_when-a-man-lives-with-god-his-voice-shal_763383.png) > [The horseman serves the horse, The neat-herd serves the neat, The merchant serves the purse, The eater serves his meat; 'Tis the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-horseman-serves-the-horse-the-neat-herd-serves-the-neat-the/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fa3/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_consumerism_the-horseman-serves-the-horse-the-neat-h_2541508.jpg) > [Rings and jewels are not gifts, but apologies for gifts. The only gift is a portion of thyself. Thou must bleed for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/rings-and-jewels-are-not-gifts-but-apologies-for-gifts-the-only-gift/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5b4/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_apology_rings-and-jewels-are-not-gifts-but-apolo_407218.png) > [Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/work-and-thou-canst-escape-the-reward-whether-the-work-be-fine-or/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/026/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_being-honest_work-and-thou-canst-escape-the-reward-wh_755780.png) > [Why should all virtue work in one and the same way? Why should all give dollars? It is very inconvenient to us…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/why-should-all-virtue-work-in-one-and-the-same-way-why-should-all/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7e1/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_character_why-should-all-virtue-work-in-one-and-th_1792998.jpg) > [We are as much strangers in nature, as we are aliens from God. We do not understand the notes of birds. The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/we-are-as-much-strangers-in-nature-as-we-are-aliens-from-god-we-do/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/759/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_aliens_we-are-as-much-strangers-in-nature-as-we_2067814.jpg) > [If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/if-man-has-good-corn-or-wood-or-boards-or-pigs-to-sell-or-can-make/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/92d/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_beaten_if-man-has-good-corn-or-wood-or-boards-o_1739653.png) > [Pride can go without domestics, without fine clothes, can live in a house with two rooms, can eat potato, purslain, beans, lyed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/pride-can-go-without-domestics-without-fine-clothes-can-live-in-a/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d04/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_beans_pride-can-go-without-domestics-without-f_3143780.jpg) > [There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/there-is-a-time-in-every-man-s-education-when-he-arrives-at-the/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bdb/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_conviction_there-is-a-time-in-every-man-s-education_364117.jpg) ## Other authors on Corn ## More by Ralph Waldo Emerson > [The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-history-of-mankind-interests-us-only-as-it-exhibits-a-steady-gain/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [If we will not interfere with our thought, but will act entirely, or see how the thing stands in God, we know the particular…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/if-we-will-not-interfere-with-our-thought-but-will-act-entirely-or/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/if-there-is-any-period-one-would-desire-to-be-born-in-is-it-not-the/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/a-man-cannot-speak-but-he-judges-himself-with-his-will-or-against-his/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/consideration-is-the-soil-in-which-wisdom-may-be-expected-to-grow-and/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [“There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/there-is-then-creative-reading-as-well-as-creative-writing-when-the/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [The order of things consents to virtue.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-order-of-things-consents-to-virtue/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [Life only avails, not the having lived.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/life-only-avails-not-the-having-lived/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that the power…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/another-success-is-the-post-office-with-its-educating-energy/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/a-child-reminds-us-that-playtime-is-an-essential-part-of-our-daily/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/no-man-can-be-criticised-but-by-a-greater-than-he-do-not-then-read/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/coal-lay-in-ledges-under-the-ground-since-the-flood-until-a-laborer/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [I am; therefore, I had nothing better to do than to think.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/i-am-therefore-i-had-nothing-better-to-do-than-to-think/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/in-a-library-we-are-surrounded-by-many-hundreds-of-dear-friends-but/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel disappointment, a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-compensations-of-calamity-are-made-apparent-to-the-understanding/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/corn/ralph-waldo-emerson/#itemlist", "name": "13 Corn Quotes By Ralph Waldo Emerson", "numberOfItems": 13, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Ralph Waldo Emerson" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/though-the-wide-universe-is-full-of-good-no-kernel-of-nourishing-corn/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/640/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_corn_though-the-wide-universe-is-full-of-good_2335791.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/640/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_corn_though-the-wide-universe-is-full-of-good_2335791.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/640/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_corn_though-the-wide-universe-is-full-of-good_2335791.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil…” — Ralph Waldo Emerson", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. 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