Quotes by Emerson, Ralph Waldo

What terrible questions we are learning to ask! The former men believe >>

The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue; and no g >>

Fear always springs from ignorance. >>

Quotations about Books - Classics

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once >>

A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say. >>

The light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for >>

There are books which take rank in your life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences, so medicinal, so stringent, so revolutionary, so authoritative.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo