Ralph Waldo Emerson Wit Quotations

For every grain of wit there is a grain of folly.

The reliance on authority measures the decline of religion, the withdrawal of the soul.

Nor sequent centuries could hitOrbit and sum of Shakespeare's wit.

Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.

True wit never made us laugh.

The finest wits have their sediment.

Of all wit's uses, the main one is to live well with who has none.

Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions.

Nor sequent centuries could hit Orbit and sum of Shakespeare's wit

I knew a witty physician who found theology in the biliary duct, and used to affirm that if there was a disease in the liver, the man became a Calvinist, and if that organ was sound, he became a Unitarian.

No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby - so helpless and so ridiculous.