Ralph Waldo Emerson Bread Quotations

To eat bread is one thing; to love the precepts of Christ and resolve to obey them is quite another.

I pray my companion, if he wishes for bread, to ask me for bread, and if he wishes for sassafras or arsenic, to ask me for them, and not to hold out his plate, as if I knew already.

Alas for the unhappy man that is called to stand in the pulpit, and not give the bread of life.

The finest poems of the world have been expedients to get bread.

The Sky is the daily bread of the imagination

He thought it happier to be dead, To die for Beauty, than live for bread

Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread.

Health and appetite impart the sweetness to sugar, bread and meat.