Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Hell

• To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Attitude, Greatness, Heaven

  Ralph Waldo Emerson's Journals, December 20, 1822.

• Don't trust children with edge tools. Don't trust man, great God, with more power than he has until he has learned to use that little better. What a hell we should make of the world if we could do what we would!

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Children, Power, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Heart of Emerson's Journals”, p.55, Courier Corporation

• Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities as hard as iron.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Strong, War, Adversity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2631, Delphi Classics

• To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven depending on whether they compare it to something better and so feel disappointed and bitter or something worse and so feel relieved and grateful.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Gratitude, Grateful, Heaven

• Many might go to Heaven with half the labor they go to hell.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Heaven, Half, Might

• And I myself, in Rome, heard it said openly in the streets, "If there is a hell, then Rome is built on it." MARTIN LUTHER, Against the Roman Papacy, An Institution of the Devil London is the epitome of our times, and the Rome of to-day.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Rome, Devil, London

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