More from Ralph Waldo Emerson

  1. Nothing can be preserved that is not good.
  2. If the colleges were better, if they ... had the power of imparting valuable thought, creative principles, truths which become powers, thou…
  3. 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…
  4. Only the great generalizations survive. The sharp words of the Declaration of Independence, lampooned then and since as 'glittering general…
  5. Classics which at home are drowsily read have a strange charm in a country inn, or in the transom of a merchant brig.
  6. 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…
  7. 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…
  8. A mollusk is a cheap edition [of man] with a suppression of the costlier illustrations, designed for dingy circulation, for shelving in an …

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