Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
Weitere Zitate von Ralph Waldo Emerson
Zum Autor"Culture with us ends in headache."
"If we are related, we shall meet. It was a tradition of the ancient world, that no metamorphosis could hide a god from a god; and there is a Greek verse which runs, 'The Gods are to each other not unknown.'Friends also follow the laws of divine necessity; they gravitate to each other, and cannot otherwise."
"A great man stands on God. A small man stands on a great man."
"A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking."
"It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature that a man having once shown himself capable of original writing is entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at discretion."
"His heart was as great as the world but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong."