Ralph Waldo Emerson

(89 votes)   'Tis a rule of manners to avoid exaggeration.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(276 votes)   'Tis a superstition to insist on a special diet. All is made at last of the same chemical atoms.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(75 votes)   'Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakenly meant for his ear; the profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader; the profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until it is discovered by an equal mind and heart.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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(50 votes)   'Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem to be confidences or sides hidden from all else and unmistakably meant for his ear; the profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader; the profound thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until it is discovered by an equal mind and heart.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(45 votes)   'Tis the old secret of the gods that they come in low disguises.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(109 votes)   'Tis very certain that each man carries in his eye the exact indication of his rank in the immense scale of men, and we are always learning to read it. A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(60 votes)   A beautiful form is better than a beautiful face; it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures; it is the finest of the fine arts.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(59 votes)   A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza; read it forward, backward, or across, it still spells the same thing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(47 votes)   A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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(98 votes)   A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(136 votes)   A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(74 votes)   A few strong instincts and a few plain rules suffice us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(84 votes)   A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(137 votes)   A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may think aloud.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(83 votes)   A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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