Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes
1. Be a little careful of your Library. Do
you foresee what you will do with it? Very little to be sure. But the
real question is, Wh
at
it will do with you? You will come here & get books that will open
your eyes, & your ears, & your curiosity, & turn you inside
out or outside in.
2. I greet you at the beginning of a
great career, which must yet have had a long foreground somewhere, for
such a start. I rubbed my
eyes a little to see if this sunbeam were no illusion; but the solid
sense of the book is a sober certainty. It has the best merits, namely,
of fortifying and encouraging.
3. There is no one who does not exaggerate. In conversation, men are encumbered with personality, and talk too much.
4. Solvency is maintained by means of a national debt, on the principle, "If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?"
5. Government exists to defend the weak
and the poor and the injured party; the rich and the strong can better
take care of themselves
6. If any mention was made of homicide,
madness, adultery, and intolerable tortures, we would let the
church-bells ring louder, the c
hurch-organ swell its peal and drown the hideous sound. The sugar they raised was excellent: nobody tasted blood in it.
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