Ralph Waldo Emerson Gains Quotations

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. It undergoes continual changes: it is barbarous, it is civilized, it is rich, it is scientific; but this change is not amelioration. For every thing that is given, something else is taken. Society acquires new arts and loses old instincts.

By persisting in your path, though you forfeit the little, you gain the great.

The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records between the material and the moral nature.

No man gains credit for his cowardly courtesies.