Waldo Emerson Quotes

President Heber J. Grant often quoted the following statement, which is sometimes attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson: “That which we persist in doing becomes easier for us to do-not that the nature of the thing is changed, but that our power to do is increased.'

The ancestor of every action is a thought. —Ralph Waldo Emerson

When [Ralph Waldo] Emerson visited Thoreau in jail and asked, 'What are you doing in there?' it was reported that Thoreau replied, 'What are you doing out there?'

He had gone to the higher Sierras... [about Ralph Waldo Emerson's death]