Quotes by Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is >>

All the great speakers were bad speaker at first. >>

A man's what he thinks about all day long >>

Quotations about Manners

In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural w >>

Consideration for others is the basic of a good life, a good society. >>

He is the very pineapple of politeness! >>

Manners are the happy way of doing things; each once a stroke of genius or of love --now repeated and hardened into usage. They form at last a rich varnish, with which the routine of life is washed, and its details adorned. If they are superficial, so are the dewdrops which give such depth to the morning meadows.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo