Quotes by Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness. >>

A great man stands on God. A small man on a great man. >>

Quotations about America

Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize al >>

The rising power of the United States in world affairs requires, not a >>

There is one expanding horror in American life. It is that our long od >>

I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes to get rich by credit, to get knowledge by raps on midnight tables, to learn the economy of the mind by phrenology, or skill without study, or mastery without apprenticeship.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo