The conduct of Life Nature and other Essays Quotes

“Thought is the seed of action; but action is as much its second form as thought is its first.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, The conduct of Life Nature and other Essays

“Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each one a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage, they form at last a rich varnish, with which the routine of life is washed, and its details adorned. If they are superficial, so are the dew-drops which give such a depth to the morning meadows.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Conduct of Life & Nature & Other Essays