Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Monument

• Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Success, Death

• Where dwells the religion? Tell me first where dwells electricity, or motion, or thought or gesture. They do not dwell or stay atall. Electricity cannot be made fast, mortared up and ended, like London Monument, or the Tower, so that you shall know where to find it, and keep it fixed, as the English do with their things, forevermore; it is passing, glancing, gesticular; it is a traveller, a newness, a surprise, a secret which perplexes them, and puts them out.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Secret, Religion, Towers

• We infer the spirit of the nation in great measure from the language, which is a sort of monument, to which each forcible individual in a course of many hundred years has contributed a stone.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Years, Stones, Spirit

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1511, Delphi Classics

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