Quotes from work
English Traits

“I find the Englishman to be him of all men who stands firmest in his shoes. They have in themselves what they value in their horses, — mettle and bottom.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson English Traits

English Traits (1856)

“A creative economy is the fuel of magnificence.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson English Traits

English Traits, Aristocracy
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Classics which at home are drowsily read have a strange charm in a country inn, or in the transom of a merchant brig.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson English Traits

English Traits (1856)

“Solvency is maintained by means of a national debt, on the principle, "If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?"”

Ralph Waldo Emerson English Traits

English Traits (1856), reprinted in The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Vol. 2 (Boston: Fields, Osgood, & Co., 1870), p. 206 ( full text at GoogleBooks http://books.google.com/books?id=21IRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA206)

“The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson English Traits

English Traits, Race
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

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