Quotes by Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and usin >>

Some books leave us free and some books make us free. >>

The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men. >>

Quotations about Humor

It's hard to be funny when you have to be clean. >>

The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of i >>

Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten. >>

There is this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means; draw it all out, and hold him to it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo