As many languages as he has, as many friends, as many arts and trades, so many times is he a man.
Ralph Waldo EmersonScience in England, in America, is jealous of theory, hates the name of love and moral purpose. There's revenge for this humanity.What manner of man does science make? The boy is not attracted. He says, I do not wish to be such a kind of man as my professor is.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThere is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
Ralph Waldo EmersonSolitude is naught and society is naught. Alternate them and the good of each is seen.
Ralph Waldo EmersonOur civility, England determines the style of, inasmuch as England is the strongest of the family of existing nations, and as we are the expansion of that people. It is that of a trading nation; it is a shopkeeping civility. The English lord is a retired shopkeeper, and has the prejudices and timidities of that profession.
Ralph Waldo Emerson