Quotes by Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the >>

Today is a king in disguise. >>

Do what we can, summer will have its flies. >>

Quotations about Libraries

A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furnitur >>

I go into my library, and all history unrolls before me. I breathe the >>

Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one. >>

Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have given, forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libraries, when they wrote these books. Hence, instead of Man Thinking, we have the book-worm.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo