Ralph Waldo Emerson ( 10 of 488 )
Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use short and positive speech.
Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use short and positive speech.
The human body is a magazine of inventions, the patent office, where are the models from which every hint is read more
The human body is a magazine of inventions, the patent office, where are the models from which every hint is taken. All the tools and engines on earth are only extensions of its limbs and senses.
Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.
Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.
Men lose their tempers in defending their taste.
Men lose their tempers in defending their taste.
Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book.
Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book.
If a man owns land, the land owns him.
If a man owns land, the land owns him.
Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places.
Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places.
Wilt thou seal up the avenues of ill? Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.
Wilt thou seal up the avenues of ill? Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.
A good indignation brings out all one's powers.
A good indignation brings out all one's powers.
