Quotes by Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The intellectual man requires a fine bait; the sots are easily amused. >>

Men over forty are no judges of a book written in a new spirit. >>

Never read any book that is not a year old. >>

Quotations about Sea

To me, the sea is like a person -- like a child that I've known a long >>

The ocean, whose tides respond, like women's menses, to the pull of th >>

The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomp >>

The sea, washing the equator and the poles, offers its perilous aid, and the power and empire that follow it... Beware of me, it says, but if you can hold me, I am the key to all the lands.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo