Life is not intellectual or critical, but sturdy. Its chief good is for well-mixed people who can enjoy what they find, without question. Nature hates peeping, and our mothers speak her very sense when they say, ‘Children, eat your victuals, and say no more of it.’
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
Nature is no spendthrift, but takes the shortest way to her ends.
The book of Nature is the book of Fate. She turns the gigantic pages – leaf after leaf, never returning one.
Nature and literature are subjective phenomena; every evil and every good thing is a shadow which we cast.
A nation never falls but by suicide.
He with holds his name. At the hotel, he is hardly willing to whisper it to the clerk at the book-office. If he gives you his private address on a card it is like an avowal of friendship; and his bearing, on being introduced, is cold, even though he is seeking your acquaintance, and is […]
I stayed in London till I had become acquainted with all the styles of face in the street, and till I had found the suburbs and then straggling houses on each end of the city. Then I took a cab, left my farewell cards, and came home. I saw Alison, Thackeray, Cobden, Tennyson, Bailey, Marston, […]
I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead institutions.
A few strong instincts and a few plain rules suffice us.
Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.
