Maxioms by Ralph Waldo Emerson
The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain; and there is no good theory of read more
The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain; and there is no good theory of disease which does not at once suggest a cure.
If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or
can make better chairs read more
If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or
can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs,
than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his
house, tho it be in the woods. And if a man knows the law,
people will find it out, tho he live in a pine shanty, and resort
to him. And if a man can pipe or sing, so as to wrap the
prisoned soul in an elysium; or can paint landscape, and convey
into oils and ochers all the enchantments of spring or autumn; or
can liberate or intoxicate all people who hear him with delicious
songs and verses, 'tis certain that the secret can not be kept:
the first witness tells it to a second, and men go by fives and
tens and fifties to his door.
There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant
There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant
Blame is safer than praise.
Blame is safer than praise.
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
