Quotes by Emerson, Ralph Waldo

It is a happy talent to know how to play. >>

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

Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is >>

Quotations about Words

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged, it is the skin of >>

Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of diction >>

The volatile truth of our words should continually betray the inadequa >>

It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence, whether a man be behind it or no.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo