Quotes by Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Coal is a portable climate. It carries the heat of the tropics to Labr >>

In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise. >>

Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abol >>

Quotations about Quotations

Some, for renown, on scraps of learning dote, and think they grow immo >>

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world. >>

Anecdotes and maxims are rich treasures to the man of the world, for h >>

Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. Many will read the book before one thinks of quoting a passage. As soon as he has done this, that line will be quoted east and west.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo