Quotes by Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The faith that stands on authority is not faith. >>

Murder in the murderer is no such ruinous thought as poets and romance >>

A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages. >>

Quotations about Institutions

Whether lawyer, politician or executive, the American who knows what's >>

Wherever a man goes, men will pursue him and paw him with their dirty >>

What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a th >>

An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo