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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tis the good...
'Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which...
The quality of...
The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze.
Source: In Instant...
The creation of...
The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
Source: In The Speaker's...
Common sense is...
Common sense is the wick of the candle.
Source: Journals, 1845.
-- Ralph Waldo...
The louder he...
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
Source: The...
A character is...
A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza; -- read it forward, backward, or across, it still spells the...
A beautiful woman...
A beautiful woman is a picture which drives all beholders nobly mad.
Source: In...
Tis very certain...
'Tis very certain that each man carries in his eye the exact indication of his rank in the immense scale of men, and...
Tis a rule...
'Tis a rule of manners to avoid exaggeration.
Source: Letters and Social Aims,...
A cynic can...
A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word.
Source: In Correct Quotes for...
A chief event...
A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
A foolish consistency...
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With...
A beautiful woman...
A beautiful woman is a practical poet.
Source: Beauty.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson,...
Tis a superstition...
'Tis a superstition to insist on a special diet. All is made at last of the same chemical...
A good indignation...
A good indignation brings out all one's powers.
Source: In
A child is...
A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.
Source: In Correct Quotes for DOS, WordStar...
A friend is...
A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.
A certain awkwardness...
A certain awkwardness marks the use of borrowed thoughts; but as soon as we have learned what to do with them, they...
A Friend may...
A Friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of Nature.
Source: Essays,...
A great man...
A great man is always willing to be little.
Source: In Webster's Electronic...