Quotes by Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridicul >>

Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no >>

It is long ere we discover how rich we are. Our history, we are sure, >>

Quotations about Conversation

There is nothing so dangerous for anyone who has something to hide as >>

The great gift of conversation lies less in displaying it ourselves th >>

The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is wa >>

In conversation the game is, to say something new with old words. And you shall observe a man of the people picking his way along, step by step, using every time an old boulder, yet never setting his foot on an old place.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo