Emerson

Famous quotes containing the word emerson:

“The President has paid dear for his White House. It has commonly cost him all his peace, and the best of his manly attributes. To preserve for a short time so conspicuous an appearance before the world, he is content to eat dust before the real masters who stand erect behind the throne.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“Give me insight into today and you may have the antique and future worlds.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“Every hero becomes a bore at last.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)