Quotes by Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Men are what their mothers made them. >>

Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken >>

If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books >>

Quotations about Genius

Everybody hates a prodigy, detests an old head on young shoulders. >>

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active >>

Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they li >>

Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo