“Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library. A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil countries, in a thousand years, have set in best order the results of their learning and wisdom.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Source: From the 1870 book Society and Solitude, “Books”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
“We grant no dukedoms to the few, We hold like rights and shall; — Equal on Sunday in the pew, On Monday in the mall. For what avail the plough or sail, Or land or life, if freedom fail?” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Source: from the 1873 poem Boston, written for the centennial of the… Continue reading Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
“We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is through a transfer of the idolatry.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Source: from the 1844 book Essays: Second Series, “Character”
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
“Nothing astonishes men so much as common-sense and plain dealing.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Source: From the 1841 book Essays: First Series, “Art”
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Source: From the 1841 book Essays: First Series, “Art”