Quotes by Emerson, Ralph Waldo

I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them whe >>

No orator can top the one who can give good nicknames. >>

Knowledge is the only elegance. >>

Quotations about Genius

Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an inhab >>

The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, sho >>

Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite. >>

The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue; and no genius can long or often utter anything which is not invited and gladly entertained by men around him.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo