Ralph Waldo Emerson Needs Quotations

Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.

Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.

Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.

The eyes of men converse as much as their tongues, with the advantage that the ocular dialect needs no dictionary, but is understood all the world over.

A farm is a good thing, when it begins and ends with itself, and does not need a salary, or a shop, to eke it out.

If you want a friend you need to be a friend.

The need for a rational consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds.

If you visit your friend, why need you apologize for not having visited him, and waste his time and deface your own act? Visit him now.

The powers of the Soul are commensurate with its needs.

All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair or good alone.

You need not fear to handle the truth roughly. She is no invalid.

The writer, like a priest, must be exempted from secular labor. His work needs a frolic health; he must be at the top of his condition.

We grizzle every day. I see no need of it. Whilst we converse with what is above us, we do not grow old, but grow young.

It is frivolous to fix pedantically the date of particular inventions. They have all been invented over and over fifty times. Man is the arch machine, of which all these shifts drawn from himself are toy models. He helps himself on each emergency by copying or duplicating his own structure, just so far as then need is.

We all need someone who can help us do what we already can.

The people know that they need in their representative much more than talent, namely, the power to make his talent trusted.

Character wants room; must not be crowded on by persons, nor be judged from glimpses got in the press of affairs, or on few occasions. It needs perspective, as a great building.

Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?

Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms.

A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence.

You need someone who can inspire you to be what you know you can be

As long as any man exists, there is some need of him.

Few and mean as my gifts may be, I actually am, and do not need for my own assurance or the assurance of my fellows any secondary testimony.

Friends should be like books, easy to find when you need them, but seldom used.