19th century Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“He that will not set himself proudly at the top of all things, but will consider the immensity of this fabric, and the great…

— John Locke

“How intimately I experience in my heart just what he must have felt in all of those unknown rooms, some of them poor, perhaps,…

— Anna Kavan

“Man is so entirely dependent on man—so much a part, so little a whole—that I do not believe he is intended to be so…

— Rhoda Broughton

“One that has well digested his knowledge both of books and men, has little enjoyment but in the company of a few select companions.…

— David Hume

“A man must have a less than ordinary share of sense that would furnish such plain and common rooms with silver-footed couches and purple…

— Plutarch

“And, in fact, He shows much more of Himself to some people than to others—not because He has favourites, but because it is impossible…

— C.S. Lewis

“He had built up within himself a kind of sanctuary in which she throned among his secret thoughts and longings. Little by little it…

— Edith Wharton

“I consider that a man’s brain is originally like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“He used to wonder at the shallow psychology of those who conceive the ego in man as a thing simple, permanent, reliable , and…

— Oscar Wilde

“The writer in him is only the shadow of the man, though so often we observe men whose art of writing is so great,…

— Stefan Zweig