“To be rich is to have a ticket of admission to the masterworks and chief men of each race. It is to have the sea, by voyaging; to visit the mountains, Niagara, the Nile, the desert, Rome, Paris, Constantinople; to see galleries, libraries, arsenals, manufactories.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (verified)
Wealth (Primary source)
In Wealth, Emerson argues that true wealth is not merely material accumulation, but the ability to create and contribute. It stems from aligning oneself with natural laws and serving others, leading to a flourishing and abundant life beyond mere possessions.
“The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson (verified)“In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson (verified)“The law of nature is, Do the thing, and you shall have the power: but they who do not the thing have not the power.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson (verified)“Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.”
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“No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.”
— Ernest Hemingway (verified)“That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson (verified)“Observe all men; thyself most.”
— Benjamin Franklin (verified)“Men who hesitate never succeed in their undertakings.”
— Napoleon Bonaparte (verified, secondary source)