Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
He chose to be rich by making his wants few, and supplying them himself.
This was an essay on the Death of Writer & Philosopher Henry David Thoreau, 1817-1862.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1882, Poet & Essayist, “Thoreau”, The Atlantic Monthly, August 1862
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Wants however often include abstract notions such as power.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, who went by his middle name Waldo, was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, abolitionist and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen as a champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society, and he disseminated his thoughts through dozens of published essays and more than 1,500 public lectures across the United States.
