Nature, Addresses, and Lectures (Volume I) Quotes

“Napoleon said of Massena, that he was not himself until the battle began to go against him; then, when the dead began to fall in ranks around him, awoke his powers of combination, and he put on terror and victory as a robe. So it is in rugged crises, in unweariable endurance, and in aims which put sympathy out of question, that the angel is shown.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature, Addresses, and Lectures (Volume I)

“It is not often the worst trait that occasions the loudest outcry. Men complain of their suffering and not of the crime.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature: Addresses and Lectures

“The permanent interest of every man is never to be in a false position.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature, Addresses, and Lectures (Volume I)