Quote #199
Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius the stern friend.
More from Ralph Waldo Emerson
- All educated Americans, first or last, go to Europe.
- We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
- You can never do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
- The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
- Art is a jealous mistress.
- Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances...Strong men believe in cause and effect.
- The world is his, who has money to go over it.
- People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.