Quote #5734
Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative...
Quote #11931
When sorrows come, they come not single spies, But in battalions.
Quote #34469
Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the...
Quote #13951
If you rest, you rust.
Quote #15391
Till a man can judge whether they be truths or not, his understanding is...
Quote #5920
There are but few saints amongst scientists, as among other men, but truth itself...
Quote #29704
The telephone is the greatest nuisance among conveniences, the greatest convenience among nuisances.
Quote #13594
Ideals are like stars. You will not succeed in touching them with your hands....
Quote #31124
Part of the power of Emerson’s individualism is his insistence, at crucial moments, that...
Quote #179
History is more or less bunk.