Emperor Quote by Henry David Thoreau Download Open image “Genius is not a retainer to any emperor.” — Henry David Thoreau ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Emperor Genius Independence Intelligence Retainers
“Genius is not a retainer to any emperor, or is its material silver, or gold, or marble, except to a trifling extent.” — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Genius is no respecter of time, trouble, money or persons, the four things around which human affairs turn most persistently. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Genius simply cannot be reduced to a set of rules for anyone to follow. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
I am certainly of opinion that genius can be acquired, or, in the alternative, that it is an almost universal possession. — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
If ever I did a man any goodof course it was something exceptional and insignificant compared with the good or evil which I am… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Men say they know many things; But lo! they have taken wings, — The arts and sciences, And a thousand appliances; The wind that… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or back gammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“This spending of the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A traveler who looks at things with an impartial eye may see what the oldest inhabitant has not observed. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In proportion as our inward life fails, we go more constantly and desperately to the post office. You may depend on it, that the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The still youthful energies of the globe have only to be directed in their proper channel. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Concord's little arch does not span all our fate, nor is what transpires under it law for the universe. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In a certain reign there was a lady not of the first rank whom the emperor loved more than any of the others. The… — Murasaki Shikibu Copy Share Image
Rome ... at its most decadent, had never thought of hiring an actor to go through the motions of being an emperor while the… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Emperor Sid Caesar is gone to eternity himself now. He takes with him the gratitude of every one of us who first learned the… — Ben Stein Copy Share Image
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. Books, the oldest and the best, stand naturally… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Thou wast not born for death, immortal bird! No hungry generations tread thee down; The voice I hear this passing night was heard In… — John Keats Copy Share Image
There was living in the palace at this time a brother of the great Germanicus, and consequently an uncle of the late emperor, whose… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When the king asked him what he meant by infesting the sea, the pirate defiantly replied: The same as you do when you infest… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
It becomes an emperor to die standing (i.e., "in harness"). [Lat., Decet imperatorem statem mori.] — Vespasian Copy Share Image
They do not depend upon mere legends and myths. They are not predicated on the false conception that the Emperor is divine and that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
News flash, lady. There are no queens anymore,” Shane said. He loaded shells in a shotgun and snapped it shut, then searched for a… — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
I'm not the grand poobah. I'm not the emperor. That's not what I want to be. — John Calipari Copy Share Image
