Quotes by Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by s >>

Things said for conversation are chalk eggs. Don't say things. What yo >>

Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is due >>

Quotations about Books - Reading

There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art >>

For a good book has this quality, that it is not merely a petrifaction >>

Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your ev >>

Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo