Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 53
Those who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who live to the present.
Give me insight into today and you may have the antique and future worlds.
Poverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense.
The unbelief of the age is attested by the loud condemnation of trifles.
Philanthropic and religious bodies do not commonly make their executive officers out of saints.
Picture and sculpture are the celebrations and festivities of form.
Let him go where he will, he can only find so much beauty or worth as he carries.
Any extraordinary degree of beauty in man or woman involves a moral charm.
We prize books, and they prize them most who are themselves wise.
A man is not to aim at innocence, any more than he is to aim at hair, but he is to keep it.
There is ever a slight suspicion of the burlesque about earnest good men.