Ralph Waldo Emerson Balance Quotations

People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.

The hero is a mind of such balance that no disturbances can shake his will, but pleasantly, and, as it were, merrily, he advancesto his own music, alike in frightful alarms and in the tipsy mirth of universal dissoluteness.

Success goes thus invariably with a certain plus or positive power: an ounce of power must balance an ounce of weight.

Genius has infused itself into nature. It indicates itself by a small excess of good, a small balance in brute facts always favorable to the side of reason.

If a man lose his balance, and immerse himself in any trades or pleasures for their own sake, he may be a good wheel or pin, but he is not a cultivated man.

When the vain speaker has sat down, and the people say 'what a good speech,' it still takes an ounce to balance an ounce.

The world looks like a multiplication-table, or a mathematical equation, which, turn it how you will, balances itself.

The sanity of society is a balance of a thousand insanity's.

Evermore in the world is this marvelous balance of beauty and disgust, magnificence and rats.