Elegant

Famous quotes containing the word elegant:

    Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants and to serve them one’s self, so as to have somewhat left to give, instead of being always prompt to grab?
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    It is an elegant refinement that God learned Greek when he wanted to become a writer—and that he did not learn it better.
    Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    Among the earliest institutions to be invented, if I read the stars right, is a Protestant monastery, a place of elegant seclusion where melancholy gentlemen and ladies may go to spend the advanced session of life in drinking milk, walking the woods & reading the Bible and the poets.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)