Ralph Waldo Emerson

I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.

I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.

No book was ever written down by any but itself.

No book was ever written down by any but itself.

The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.

The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.

Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the read more

Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of the age.

I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech,
the sea which receives tributaries from every region read more

I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech,
the sea which receives tributaries from every region under
heaven. I should as soon think of swimming across the Charles
river when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in
originals, when I have them rendered for me in my mother tongue.