Ralph Waldo Emerson Yield Quotations

A new person is to me a great event, and hinders me from sleep. I have often had fine fancies about persons which have given me delicious hours; but the joy ends in the day; it yields no fruit.

If you tax too high, the revenue will yield nothing.

The earth is a machine which yields almost gratuitous service to every application of intellect. Every plant is a manufacturer of soil. In the stomach of the plant development begins. The tree can draw on the whole air, the whole earth, on all the rolling main. The plant is all suction-pipe,--imbibing from the ground by its root, from the air by its leaves, with all its might.

There is nothing settled in manners, but the laws of behavior yield to the energy of the individual.

Not the sun or summer alone, but every hour and season yields its tribute of delight.

The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.