Quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1837

Among provocations the next best thing to good preaching is bad preaching. I have even more thoughts during or enduring it than at other times.

The one thing in the world of value, is, the active soul, — the soul, free, sovereign, active. This every man is entitled to; this every man contains within him, although, in almost all men, obstructed, and as yet unborn.

But there was never child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.