Quotes by Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast. Its >>

He who would be a man must therefore be a non-conformist. >>

Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations. >>

Quotations about Books - Reading

The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, >>

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior mi >>

People are much more willing to lend you books than bookcases. >>

We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo