Ralph Waldo Emerson Improvement Quotations

It is handsomer to remain in the establishment better than the establishment, and conduct that in the best manner, than to make asally against evil by some single improvement, without supporting it by a total regeneration.

It seems as if the day was not wholly profane in which we have given heed to some natural object.

All men plume themselves on the improvement of society, and no man improves.

We do not know today whether we are busy or idle. In times when we thought ourselves indolent, we have afterwards discovered that much was accomplished, and much was begun in us.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.