Ralph Waldo Emerson Pay Quotations

It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.

Beware of too much good staying in your hand. It will fast corrupt and worm worms. Pay it away quickly in some sort.

The only money of God is God. He pays never with any thing less, or any thing else.

Persons are fine things, but they cost so much! for thee I must pay me.

A man must thank his defects, and stand in some terror of his talents. A transcendent talent draws so largely on his forces as tolame him; a defect pays him revenues on the other side.

I find nothing healthful or exalting in the smooth conventions of society. I do not like the close air of saloons. I begin to suspect myself to be a prisoner, though treated with all this courtesy and luxury. I pay a destructive tax in my conformity.

Sincerity is the highest complement you can pay

I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son.

Life is a boundless privilege, and when you pay for your ticket, and get into the car, you have no guess what good company you shall find there.

It is always so pleasant to be generous, though very vexatious to pay debts.

Envy is the tax which all distinction must pay.

If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?

Wouldst thou shut up the avenues of ill, Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.

A man often pays dear for a small frugality.

Of all debts, men are least willing to pay their taxes; what a satire this is on government.