More From Ralph Waldo Emerson
- "The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood."
- "A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams."
- "Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding."
More In Life
- "Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work – that goes on, it adds up."― Barbara Kingsolver
- "Life’s Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late."― Benjamin Franklin
- "The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous."― Frederick Douglass