We may like well to know what is Platoโs and what is Montesquieuโs or Goetheโs part, and what thought was always dear to the writer himself; but the worth of the sentences consists in their radiancy and equal aptitude to all intelligence. They fit all our facts like a charm. We respect ourselves the more that we know them.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe kitchen clock is more convenient than sidereal time. We must use the popular category, as we do by the Linnรฆan classification, for convenience, and not as exact and final. Otherwise, we are presently confounded, when the best-settled traits of one race are claimed by some new ethnologist as precisely characteristic of the rival tribe.
Ralph Waldo EmersonSociety has really no graver interest than the well-being of the literary class.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI have heard that death takes us away from ill things, not from good. I have heard that when we pronounce the name of man we pronounce the belief of immortality.
Ralph Waldo Emerson