“ In 1881, being on a visit to Boston, my wife and I found ourselves in the Parker House with the 's, and went over to Charleston to hear him lecture. His subject was 'Some Mistakes of Moses,' and it wa… Moncure Daniel Conway
“ Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions. The surest poison is time. Ralph Waldo Emerson
“ Enmerson's interest is in the workshop phase, the birthing stage of art, not the museum moment, the embalming phase. Poetry mimics Creation and is therefore sacred. More precisely, just as God may ind… Robert D. Richardson
“ In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity. Ralph Waldo Emerson
“ Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think. Ralph Waldo Emerson
“ You can learn more by going to the opera than you ever can by reading Emerson. Like that there are two sexes. David Markson
“ Thought and knowledge are natures in which apparatus and pretension avail nothing. Gowns, and pecuniary foundations, though of towns of gold, can never countervail the least sentence or syllable of wi… Ralph Waldo Emerson
“ My world view is somewhat unique. I have learned from many great philosophers including Plato, Socrates, Buddha, Jesus, Darwin, Tagore, Emerson, and many more. Debasish Mridha
“ Line in nature is not found;Unit and universe are round;In vain produced, all rays return;Evil will bless, and ice will burn. Ralph Waldo Emerson
“ DAMNATION!'No device of the printer's art, not even capital letters, can indicate the intensity of that shriek of rage. Emerson is known to his Egyptian workers by the admiring sobriquet of Father of… Elizabeth Peters
