Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote

The farmer imagines power and place are fine things. But the president has paid dear for his White House. It has commonly cost him all his peace and the best of his manly attributes. To preserve for a short time so conspicuous an appearance before the world, he is content to eat dust before the real masters who stand behind the throne.


Compensation, in Essays: First Series, 1841


The farmer imagines power and place are fine things. But the president has paid dear for his White House. It has commonly cost him all his peace and...

The farmer imagines power and place are fine things. But the president has paid dear for his White House. It has commonly cost him all his peace and...

The farmer imagines power and place are fine things. But the president has paid dear for his White House. It has commonly cost him all his peace and...

The farmer imagines power and place are fine things. But the president has paid dear for his White House. It has commonly cost him all his peace and...