Quotes by Emerson, Ralph Waldo

If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it; >>

We are prisoners of ideas. >>

It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poe >>

Quotations about Happiness

Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it. >>

Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or >>

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life >>

To fill the hour -- that is happiness.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo