Maxioms by Ralph Waldo Emerson
From the feet, Hercules.
[Lat., Ex pede Herculem.]
From the feet, Hercules.
[Lat., Ex pede Herculem.]
What is a man born for but to be a reformer, a remaker of what has been made, a denouncer read more
What is a man born for but to be a reformer, a remaker of what has been made, a denouncer of lies, a restorer of truth and good?
People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.
People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.
The secret in education lies in respecting the student.
The secret in education lies in respecting the student.
The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast read more
The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our virtues, or what we have always esteemed such, into the same pit that has consumed our grosser vices.