Quotes by Emerson, Ralph Waldo

This gives force to the strong -- that the multitude have no habit of >>

The power which resides in man is new in nature, and none but he knows >>

The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we cal >>

Quotations about Colleges and Universities

The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no profess >>

Our major universities are now stuck with an army of pedestrian, toady >>

I was a modest, good-humored boy. It is Oxford that has made me insuff >>

Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine: as churches and monasteries persecute youthful saints.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo