Introduction
1830s, Nature http://www.emersoncentral.com/nature.htm (1836)
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“A good symbol is the best argument, and is a missionary to persuade thousands.”
Poetry and Imagination
1870s, Society and Solitude (1870), Books, Letters and Social Aims http://www.rwe.org/comm/index.php?option=com_content&task=category§ionid=5&id=74&Itemid=149 (1876)
“The silent organ loudest chants
The master's requiem.”
Dirge
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“I see that sensible men and conscientious men all over the world were of one religion.”
Lectures and Biographical Sketches, The Preacher
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
To J.W. http://www.emersoncentral.com/poems/to_jw.htm, st. 4
1840s, Poems (1847)
“Seeing only what is fair,
Sipping only what is sweet,
Thou dost mock at fate and care.”
To the humble Bee
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Days http://www.humanitiesweb.org/human.php?s=l&p=c&a=p&ID=20591&c=323
1860s, May-Day and Other Pieces (1867)
“You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God; you shall not have both.”
October 1842
1820s, Journals (1822–1863)
“The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome.”
Uses of Great Men
1850s, Representative Men (1850)
Wealth
1860s, The Conduct of Life (1860)
“Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.”
1840s, Essays: First Series (1841), Circles
To the humble Bee
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Thought is the property of him who can entertain it, and of him who can adequately place it.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Music
Shakespeare; or, The Poet
1850s, Representative Men (1850)
“As there is a use in medicine for poisons, so the world cannot move without rogues.”
Power
1860s, The Conduct of Life (1860)
“Goethe; or, the Writer,” p. 274
1850s, Representative Men (1850)
Investigations have failed to confirm this in Emerson's writings (John H. Lienhard. "A better moustrap" http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi1163.htm, Engines of our Ingenuity). Also reported as a misattribution in Paul F. Boller, Jr., and John George, They Never Said It: A Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, & Misleading Attributions (1989), p. 25. Note that Emerson did say, as noted above, "I trust a good deal to common fame, as we all must. If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs, to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods".
Misattributed
“Things are in the saddle,
And ride mankind.”
Ode, inscribed to W. H. Channing
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
New England Reformers
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Essays, First Series