O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.

Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Topics: Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to...

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to...

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's...

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's...

Every man is a channel through which heaven floweth

Every man is a channel through which heaven floweth

Men achieve a certain greatness unawares, when working to another aim.

Men achieve a certain greatness unawares, when working to another aim.

The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best...

The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best...

So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so...

So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so...

The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so...

The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so...

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes...

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes...

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature

Life is not so short but that there is always time for courtesy

Life is not so short but that there is always time for courtesy

All mankind loves a lover.

All mankind loves a lover.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.

Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.

Love and you shall be loved.

Love and you shall be loved.

Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage

Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage

Thoughts come into our minds by avenues which we never left open, and thoughts go...

Thoughts come into our minds by avenues which we never left open, and thoughts go...

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than...

Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than...

There can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions forbidden to...

There can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions forbidden to...