Quotes by Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, a >>

I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who d >>

The rich mind lies in the sun and sleeps, and is Nature. >>

Quotations about Manners

Manners are the happy way of doing things; each once a stroke of geniu >>

It is more comfortable for me, in the long run, to be rude than polite >>

Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste. >>

There are men whose manners have the same essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon, and the remains of the earliest Greek art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo