Ralph Waldo Emerson

Works of the intellect are great only by comparison with each
other.

Works of the intellect are great only by comparison with each
other.

For everything you have missed you have gained something.

For everything you have missed you have gained something.

Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough of literature.

Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough of literature.

We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last read more

We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyfull of words and do not know a thing. The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.

We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give read more

We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light.