Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
Money often costs too much.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "Wealth." The Conduct of Life. Ticknor and Fields, 1860, p. 95.
Describing the right under the Constitution for the deposed military dictator, Augusto Pinochet, as a former head of state to become a Lifetime Senator:
Alluding to the high cost of the NASA space program and playing off the "free lunch" phrase that is used so often.
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.
