6 Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes on Social

Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes on social

70. And what fastens attention, in the intercourse of life, like any passage betraying affection between two parties? Perhaps we never saw them before, and never shall meet them again. But we see them exchange a glance, or betray a deep emotion, and we are no longer strangers. We understand them, and take the warmest interest in the development of the romance. All mankind love a lover.

125. I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.

207. Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live.

212. Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others, and this is a gift interred only by the self.

241. God may forgive sins, he said, but awkwardness has no forgiveness in heaven or earth.

270. Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.