More from Ralph Waldo Emerson

  1. I find the Englishman to be him of all men who stands firmest in his shoes. They have in themselves what they value in their horses, - mett…
  2. Never read any book that is not a year old.
  3. Classics which at home are drowsily read have a strange charm in a country inn, or in the transom of a merchant brig.
  4. If the colleges were better, if they ... had the power of imparting valuable thought, creative principles, truths which become powers, thou…
  5. I am not blind to the worth of the wonderful gift of 'LEAVES OF GRASS.' I find it the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that Ameri…
  6. Only the great generalizations survive. The sharp words of the Declaration of Independence, lampooned then and since as 'glittering general…
  7. Self-reliance, the height and perfection of man, is reliance on God.
  8. The key to the period appeared to be that the mind had become aware of itself ... The young men were born with knives in their brain, a ten…

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