Quotes by Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The walking of Man is falling forwards. >>

The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast. Its >>

The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze. >>

Quotations about Autobiography

Don't give your opinions about Art and the Purpose of Life. They are o >>

Biographical data, even those recorded in the public registers, are th >>

My Turn is the distilled bathwater of Mrs. Reagan's life. It is for th >>

It is long ere we discover how rich we are. Our history, we are sure, is quite tame: we have nothing to write, nothing to infer. But our wiser years still run back to the despised recollections of childhood, and always we are fishing up some wonderful article out of that pond; until, by and by, we begin to suspect that the biography of the one foolish person we know is, in reality, nothing less than the miniature paraphrase of the hundred volumes of the Universal History.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo