Quotes by Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Leave this hypocritical prating about the masses. Masses are rude, lam >>

'Tis a rule of manners to avoid exaggeration. >>

Knowledge is the only elegance. >>

Quotations about Solitude

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god. >>

Two Paradises t'were in one, to live in Paradise alone. >>

In solitude we are in the presence of mere matter (even the sky, the s >>

Solitude is impractical and yet society is fatal.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo