The value of a dollar is to buy just things; a dollar goes on increasing in value with all the genius and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The reason of idleness and of crime is the deferring of our hopes. Whilst we are waiting, we beguile the time with… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Although knaves win in every political struggle, although society seems to be delivered over from the hands of one set of criminals… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that, unsuspected, ripens with the flower of the pleasure that… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
On the other side, the conservative party, composed of the most moderate, able, and cultivated part of the population, is timid, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The crime which bankrupts men and states is job-work-declining from your main design, to serve a turn here and there. Nothing is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We want a state of things in which crime will not pay, a state of things which allows every man the largest… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“We see insurmountable multitudes obeying, in opposition to their strongest passions, the restraints of a power which they scarcely perceive, and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The remedy for all blunders, the cure of blindness, the cure of crime, is love. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, there can never be good for the bee which is bad for… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that unsuspected ripens within the flower of the pleasure which… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The crime which bankrupts men and nations is that of turning aside from one's main purpose to serve a job here and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
As there is a use in medicine for poisons, so the world cannot move without rogues. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Wherever a man commits a crime, God finds a witness. Every secret crime has its reporter. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Difference of opinion is the one crime which kings never forgive. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The reason of idleness and of crime is the deferring of our hopes. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If we will not interfere with our thought, but will act entirely, or see how the thing stands in God, we know the particular… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
