Quote #259
Alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine are weak dilutions. The surest poison is time.
More from Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Science does not know its debt to imagination.
- The imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man.
- A masterpiece of art has in the mind a fixed place in the chain of being, as much as a plant or a crystal.
- Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy.
- Nature paints the best part of a picture, carves the best parts of the statue, builds the best part of the house, and speaks the best part …
- I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared 'that the sense of being perfectly well-dressed gives a feeli…
- Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun.
- Don't say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.