In conversation the game is, to say something new with old words. And you shall observe a man of the people picking his way along, step by step, using every time an old boulder, yet never setting his foot on an old place. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
In the matter of religion, people eagerly fasten their eyes on the difference between their own creed and yours whilst the charm of the study is in finding the agreements and identities in all the religions of humanity (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
People do not deserve to have good writings they are so pleased with the bad. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Imagination is not a talent of some people but is the health of everyone. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
The best bribe which London offers today to the imagination, is, that, in such a vast variety of people and conditions, one can believe there is room for persons of romantic character to exist . . . (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
People suffer all their life long, under the foolish superstition that they can be cheated. But it is impossible for a person to be cheated by anyone but himself. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
People wish to be settled. It is only as far as they are unsettled that there is any hope for them. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Of course, money will do after its kind, and will steadily work to unspiritualize and unchurch the people to whom it was bequeathed. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)