4 Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes on Youth

Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes on youth

20. The key to the period appeared to be that the mind had become aware of itself ... The young men were born with knives in their brain, a tendency to introversion, self-dissection, anatomizing of motives.

82. All that Shakespeare says of the king, yonder slip of a boy that reads in the corner feels to be true of himself.

174. Olympian bards who sung Divine Ideas below, Which always find us young, And always keep us so.

220. So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can.