Quotes
Quotes - Emerson
London is the epitome of our times, and the Rome of to-day.
All mankind loves a lover.
Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
The machine unmakes the man. Now that the machine is so perfect, the engineer is nobody.
Man is a piece of the universe made alive.
Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.
Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?
We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is through a transfer of idolatry.
The mind does not create what it perceives, any more than the eye creates the rose.
All history is a record of the power of minorities, and of minorities of one.
The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast.
Money often costs too much.
A good intention clothes itself with sudden power.
A nation never falls but by suicide.
Nations have lost their old omnipotence; the patriotic tiedoes not hold. Nations are getting obsolete, we go and live where we will.
We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital.
Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of hidden stuff.
Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air through innumerable variations.
Nature... She pardons no mistakes. Her yea is yea, and her nay, nay.
Nothing is rich but the inexhaustible wealth of nature. She shows us only surfaces, but she is a million fathoms deep.
A life in harmony with nature, the love of truth and virtue, will purge the eyes to understanding her text.
Nature encourages no looseness, pardons no errors.
Earth laughs in flowers.
Plants are the young of the world, vessels of health and vigor; but they grope ever upward towards consciousness; the trees are imperfect men, and seem to bemoan their imprisonment, rooted in the ground.
By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent.
