Age Quote by John Burroughs

What a new face courage puts on everything. - Ralph Waldo Emerson To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

Emerson was such an important figure in our literary history, and in the moral and religious development of our people, that attention cannot be…

— John Burroughs

Emerson stands apart from the other poets and essayists of New England, and of English literature generally, as of another order. He is a…

— John Burroughs

He had gone to the higher Sierras... [about Ralph Waldo Emerson's death]

— John Muir

“The Prophet brought a message relevant for all ages, in other words, but he lived a life of his own age.”

— Mustafa Akyol

“He read me Whitman, of whom he was very fond, and also Emerson. I didn't like Whitman, and said so. I always thought him…

— Patrick Kavanagh

The age is a vociferous one, and no prophet is without honor who is able to strike an attitude and to speak loud enough…

— Ellen Glasgow

“For a time Emerson politely endeavored to conceal his boredom - like most men, he is profoundly disinterested in all children except his own…

— Elizabeth Peters

Old places and old persons in their turn, when spirit dwells in them, have an intrinsic vitality of which youth is incapable, precisely, the…

— George Santayana

[God] arranged that the boy Samuel should be chosen but instead of teaching him directly He had him, turn once or twice to an…

— John Cassian

“The young man, who does not know the future, sees life as a kind of epic adventure, an Odyssey through strange seas and unknown…

— John Williams

“He is perhaps fifteen—not truly a young man yet, but certainly well on his way—and he walks with the energy and indifference of one…

— John Burley