Ralph Waldo Emerson Fruit Quotations

The uses of travel are occasional, and short; but the best fruit it finds, when it finds it, is conversation; and this is a main function of life.

Religion must always be a crab fruit; it cannot be grafted, and keep its wild beauty.

Let us draw a lesson from nature, which always works by short ways. When the fruit is ripe, it falls.

Heaven sometimes hedges a rare character about with ungainliness and odium, as the burr that protects the fruit.

Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

Cause and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit cannot be severed; for the effect already blooms in the cause, the end preexists in the means, the fruit in the seed

Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that, unsuspected, ripens with the flower of the pleasure that concealed it.

Liberty is a slow fruit.