Quotes by Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindl >>

If a man knew anything, he would sit in a corner and be modest; but he >>

I find that the Americans have no passions, they have appetites. >>

Quotations about America

America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look >>

Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what American >>

I pray we are still a young and courageous nation, that we have not gr >>

In America the geography is sublime, but the men are not; the inventions are excellent, but the inventors one is sometimes ashamed of.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo