Ralph Waldo Emerson Conversation Quotations

A man of no conversation should smoke.

Private, accidental, confidential conversation breeds thought. Clubs produce oftener words.

Conversation is the laboratory and workshop of the student.

Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live.

Conversation is our account of ourselves...Conversation is the vent of character as well as thoughts...It is the laboratory of the student.

Society is frivolous, and shreds its day into scraps, its conversation into ceremonies and escapes.

Conversation is an evanescent relation,--no more.

I feel the same truth how often in my trivial conversation with my neighbours, that somewhat higher in each of us overlooks this by-play, and Jove nods to Jove from behind each of us.

The best of life is conversation.

Conversation is a game of circles.