Quotes
Quotes - Emerson
If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it; at any rate, brag.
There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.
Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use short and positive speech.
The greatest meliorator of the world is selfish, huckstering trade.
Every calamity is a spur and valuable hint.
The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time.
These times of ours are serious and full of calamity, but all times are essentially alike. As soon as there is life there is danger.
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
Every burned book enlightens the world.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
What you are thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.
Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms.
It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself.
Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness,--an open and noble temper.
So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it remains.
A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.
A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.
There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose.
Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.
Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstancesâ it was somebody's name, or he happened to be there at the time, or it was so then, and another day would have been otherwise. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
The true test of civilization is, not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops, but the kind of man that the country ;turns out.
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.
