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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some books leave...
Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
Source: In Webster's...
So far as...
So far as a person thinks; they are free.
Source: In
The masses have...
The masses have no habit of self reliance or original action.
Source: In
Talent for talent's...
Talent for talent's sake is a bauble and a show. Talent working with joy in the cause of universal truth lifts the...
Perpetual modernness is...
Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit in every work of art.
Source:...
Some will always...
Some will always be above others. Destroy the inequality today, and it will appear again...
So much of...
So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each...
The miracles of...
The miracles of genius always rest on profound convictions which refuse to be analyzed.
Talent is commonly...
Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character.
Source: In
Poverty consist in...
Poverty consist in feeling poor.
Source: In
The True Artist...
The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his...
So nigh is...
So nigh is grandeur to our dust,
So near is God to man,
When Duty whispers low, Thou must,
The youth replies,...
The moment we...
The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed; there is no winter and no night; all tragedies, all...
That which builds...
That which builds is better than that which is built.
Source: In
Pride ruined the...
Pride ruined the angels.
Source: The Sphinx.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, (May 25...
The attraction and...
The attraction and superiority of California are in its days. It has better days & more of them, than any other...
Solitude is the...
Solitude is the safeguard of mediocrity. . . to genius the stern friend.
Source: In...
The more experiments...
The more experiments you make the better.
Source: In
The German intellect...
The German intellect wants the French sprightliness, the fine practical understanding of the English, and the American...
Sentimentalists. . ....
Sentimentalists. . . adopt whatever merit is in good repute, and almost make it hateful with their praise. The warmer...