Quotes by Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The fatal trait of the times is the divorce between religion and moral >>

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Som >>

I find that the Americans have no passions, they have appetites. >>

Quotations about Sentiment

Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, >>

He who molds the public sentiment... makes statues and decisions possi >>

Sentimentality--that's what we call the sentiment we don't share. >>

Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists--talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo