All RALPH WALDO EMERSON Quotes about “Economy”

“I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes to get rich by credit, to get knowledge by raps on midnight tables, to learn the economy of the mind by phrenology, or skill without study, or mastery without apprenticeship.”
“Economy does not consist in saving the coal, but in using the time while it burns.”
“The counting-room maxims liberally expounded are laws of the Universe. The merchant's economy is a coarse symbol of the soul's economy. It is, to spend for power, and not for pleasure.”
“For splendor, there must somewhere be rigid economy. That the head of the house may go brave, the members must be plainly clad, and the town must save that the State may spend.”
“Don't make a novel to establish a principle of political economy. You will spoil both.”
“Wise men read very sharply all your private history in your look and gait and behavior. The whole economy of nature is bent on expression. The tell-tale body is all tongues. Men are like Geneva watches with crystal faces which expose the whole movement.”
“As much wisdom may be expended on a private economy as on an empire, and as much wisdom may be drawn from it.”

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