Quotes by Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that, >>

Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept >>

An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man. >>

Quotations about Ugliness

Reckoned physiologically, everything ugly weakens and afflicts man. It >>

The ugly and the stupid have the best of it in this world. They can si >>

Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts. >>

The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo