Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book; a personality which, by birth and quality, is pledged to the doctrines there set forth, and which exists to see and state things so, and not…

Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Topics: Personality Quotes, Talent Quotes, Writers Quotes, Writing Quotes

All sensible people are selfish, and nature is tugging at every contract to make the...

All sensible people are selfish, and nature is tugging at every contract to make the...

In the matter of religion, people eagerly fasten their eyes on the difference between their...

In the matter of religion, people eagerly fasten their eyes on the difference between their...

A man is a God in ruins

A man is a God in ruins

The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious...

The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious...

So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it...

So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it...

A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to...

A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to...

A man is what he thinks about all day long.

A man is what he thinks about all day long.

One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well...

One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well...

If government knew how, I should like to see it check, not multiply, the population....

If government knew how, I should like to see it check, not multiply, the population....

It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which...

It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which...

As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in...

As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in...

God screens us evermore from premature ideas.

God screens us evermore from premature ideas.

Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals....

Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals....

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never...

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never...

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

The beautiful rests on the foundations of the necessary

The beautiful rests on the foundations of the necessary

All diseases run into one, old age.

All diseases run into one, old age.

The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because...

The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because...

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession...

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession...

A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work...

A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work...