The experience of each new age requires a new confession, and the world seems always waiting for its poet.

Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Topics: Age Quotes, Funny Quotes

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...

I like the silence of a church, before the service begins better than any preaching.

I like the silence of a church, before the service begins better than any preaching.

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.

Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.

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...

We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.

We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.

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...

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

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

Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding.

Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding.

The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.

The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.

The disease with which the human mind now labors is want of faith

The disease with which the human mind now labors is want of faith

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year.

The less government we have the better.

The less government we have the better.

Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?

Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?

Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

Men are what their mothers made them.

Men are what their mothers made them.

We love force and we care very little how it is exhibited

We love force and we care very little how it is exhibited

Children are all foreigners.

Children are all foreigners.

I think all foreigners should stop interfering in the internal affairs of Iraq. Those who...

I think all foreigners should stop interfering in the internal affairs of Iraq. Those who...

The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to...

The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to...