3 Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes on Superficiality

Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes on superficiality

21. A mollusk is a cheap edition [of man] with a suppression of the costlier illustrations, designed for dingy circulation, for shelving in an oyster-bank or among the seaweed.

85. I am ashamed to see what a shallow village tale our so-called History is.

177. But these young scholars who invade our hills, Bold as the engineer who fells the wood, And travelling often in the cut he makes, Love not the flower they pluck, and know it not, And all their botany is Latin names.