Quotes by Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Murder in the murderer is no such ruinous thought as poets and romance >>

Be an opener of doors. >>

The first farmer was the first man. All historic nobility rests on the >>

Quotations about Biography

A biography is like a handshake down the years, that can become an arm >>

Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more tha >>

If the reviewing of books be... an ungentle craft, the making of them >>

There is properly no history; only biography.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo