Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes
When it is dark enough, men see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes
A man is like a bit of Labrador spar, which has no lustre as you turn it in your hand until you come to a particular angle; then it shows deep and beautiful colors. There is no adaptation or universal applicability in men, but each has his special Talent, and the mastery of Successful men consists in adroitly keeping themselves where and when that turn shall be oftenest to be practiced.
Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes
Never utter the truism but live it among men.
Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes
All great men come out of the middle classes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes
In America the geography is sublime, but the men are not; the inventions are excellent, but the inventors one is sometimes ashamed of.
Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes
Men are lenses through which we read our own minds.
Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes
Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought.
Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes
The arts and inventions of each period are only its costume, and do not invigorate men.
Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes
The key to the age may be this, or that, or the other, as the young orators describe; the key to all ages is - Imbecility; imbecility in the vast majority of men, at all times, and, even in heroes, in all but certain eminent moments; victims of gravity
Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes
What school, college, or lecture bring men depends on what men bring to carry it home in.
Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes
One of our statesmen said, 'The curse of this country is eloquent men.'
Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes
I find the Englishman to be him of all men who stands firmest in his shoes. They have in themselves what they value in their horses, mettle and bottom. mettle: spirited bottom: capacity to endure strain
Richard Whately quotes
It is generally true that all that is required to make men unmindful of what they owe to God for any blessing, is, that they should receive that blessing often and regularly.
Robert Browning quotes
The sad rhyme of the men who proudly clung To their first fault, and withered in their pride.
Robert Benchley quotes
All that a spectator gets out of the game is fresh air, the comical articles in his program, the sight of twenty-two young men rushing about in mysterious formations, and whatever he brought in his flask.
Robert Herrick quotes
Men are suspicious; prone to discontent: Subjects still loathe the present Government.


