Quotes by Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look >>

Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts. >>

Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one o >>

Quotations about Children

Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have disco >>

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain alwa >>

We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them an >>

The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog, individualizing everything, generalizing nothing, delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic. She has tasked every faculty, and has secured the symmetrical growth of the bodily frame, by all these attitudes and exertions --an end of the first importance, which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo