Quotes by Emerson, Ralph Waldo

My chief want in life is someone who shall make me do what I can. >>

Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring. >>

No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country >>

Quotations about Applause

To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinde >>

They named it Ovation from the Latin ovis [A Sheep]. >>

We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise >>

The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo