When you have worn out your shoes, the strength of the show fiber has passed into your body. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is one other reason for dressing well, namely that dogs respect it, and will not attack you in good clothes. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Fashion which affects to be honor, is often, in all men's experience, only a ballroom-code. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
They think him the best dressed man, whose dress is so fit for his use that you cannot notice or remember to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The shoemaker makes a good shoe because he makes nothing else. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Fashion understands itself; good-breeding and personal superiority of whatever country readily fraternize with those of every other. The chiefs of savage tribes… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Fashion, though in a strange way, represents all manly virtue. It is virtue gone to seed: it is a kind of posthumous… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The case wouldn't be overweight if you didn't have so many shoes. How many do you really need? This pair, for example,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Manners have been somewhatcynically defined to be a contrivance of wise men to keep fools at a distance. Fashion is shrewd to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Thus grows up fashion, an equivocal semblance, the most puissant, the most fantastic and frivolous, the most feared and followed, and which… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When you have worn out yourshoes, the strength of the shoe leather has passed into the fiber ofyour body. I measure your… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is only when mind and character slumber that the dress can be seen. If the intellect were always awake, and every… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If you follow the suburban fashion in building a sumptuous- looking house for a little money, it will appear to all eyes… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I have been told by persons of experience in matters of taste, that the fashions follow a law of gradation, and are… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
For, the advantages which fashion values, are plants which thrive in very confined localities, in a few streets, namely. Out of this… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Manners have been somewhat cynically defined to be a contrivance of wise men to keep fools at a distance. Fashion is shrewd… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If the aristocrat is only valid in fashionable circles, and not with truckmen, he will never be a leader in fashion; and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The spirit only can teach. Not any profane man, not any sensual, not any liar, not any slave can teach, but only… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I think that the heroism which at this day would make on us the impression of Epaminondas and Phocion must be that… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If thou fill thy brain with Boston and New York, with fashion and covetousness, and wilt stimulate thy jaded senses with wine… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being well dressed gives a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
If we will not interfere with our thought, but will act entirely, or see how the thing stands in God, we know the particular… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
“There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that the power… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel disappointment, a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
