Ralph Waldo Emerson Excess Quotations

Everything runs to excess; every good quality is noxious if unmixed.

The mystic must be steadily told,-All that you say is just as true without the tedious use of that symbol as with it. Let us have a little algebra, instead of this trite rhetoric,-universal signs, instead of these village symbols,-and we shall both be gainers. The history of hierarchies seems to show that all religious error consisted in making the symbol too stark and solid, and was at last nothing but an excess of the organ of language.

The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.

There can be no excess to love, none to knowledge, none to beauty.