Quotes from Emerson

Greatness is a property for which no man can receive credit too soon; it must be possessed long before it is acknowledged.

To the attentive eye, each moment of the year has its own beauty, and in the same field, it beholds, every hour, a picture which was never seen before, and which shall never be seen again.

The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and the heart of the child.

For all our penny-wisdom, for all out soul-destroying slavery to habit, it is not to be doubted that all men have sublime thoughts.

Poetry must be as new as foam, and as old as the rock.

Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands. By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.

We know the secret of the world is profound, but who or what shall be our interpreter, we know not.

We grope after the Spiritual by describing it as invisible. The true meaning of Spiritual is Real.

Tajna uspješnog vaspitanja je u poštivanju u?enika

Take the place and attitude to which you see your unquestionable right, and all men acquiesce.

No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby - so helpless and so ridiculous.