Ralph Waldo Emerson Common Quotations

Always maintain your common sense and artful skills, and funnel it all into plain enough dealings.

Common sense is as rare as genius.

The restraining grace of common sense is the mark of all valid minds.

The poet's habit of living should be set on a key so low that the common influences should delight him.

We legislate against forestalling and monopoly; we would have a common granary for the poor; but the selfishness which hoards thecorn for high prices, is the preventative of famine; and the law of self-preservation is surer policy than any legislation can be.

Poverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense.

There is one mind common to all individual men

The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic.