Quote #185
Things added to things, as statistics, civil history, are inventories. Things used as language are inexhaustibly attractive.
More from Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.
- Keep cool: it will be all one a hundred years hence.
- Every hero becomes a bore at last.
- Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out,…
- When nature removes a great man, people explore the horizon for a successor; but none comes, and none will. His class is extinguished with …
- Great men, great nations, have not been boasters and buffoons, but perceivers of the terror of life, and have manned themselves to face it.
- He is great who is what he is from Nature, and who never reminds us of others.
- Men are what their mothers made them.