Quotes by Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Society is a hospital of incurables. >>

I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes to get rich by credit, to >>

A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullnes >>

Quotations about Colleges and Universities

I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember, the p >>

University degrees are a bit like adultery: you may not want to get in >>

The medieval university looked backwards; it professed to be a storeho >>

One of the benefits of a college education is to show the boy its little avail.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo