American scholar Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are successful scholars, public-spirited scholars, upright scholars, cautious scholars, and those who are merely petty men.

— Anonymous

The work praises the man.

— Charles L. Allen

The society of the energetic class, in their friendly and festive meetings, is full of courage, and of attempts, which intimidatethe pale scholar.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It is in our own daily life that we are to look for the portents and the prodigies… Compared with this life, all public…

— G.K. Chesterton

Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Let praise be given equally to women as well as men who have been distinguished in virtue.

— Plato

Man must be associated with his fellows.

— James Larkin

“What is the scholar, what is the man for, but for hospitality to every new thought of his time? Have you leisure, power, property,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

... men want recognition of their work, to help them believe in themselves.

— Anonymous

“I delight to come to my bearings,—not walk in procession with pomp and parade, in a conspicuous place, but to walk even with the…

— Henry David Thoreau

Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier. In the divided or social state these functions are parcelled out to individuals,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.

— Ben Jonson