Emerson

Famous quotes containing the word emerson:

    A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza;—read it forward, backward, or across, it still spells the same thing.
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    To give money to a sufferer is only a come-off. It is only a postponement of the real payment, a bribe paid for silence, a credit system in which a paper promise to pay answers for the time instead of liquidation. We owe to man higher succors than food and fire. We owe to man.
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)