Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson, known professionally as Waldo Emerson, was an American essayist, lecturer, and poet who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen as a champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society, and he disseminated his thoughts through dozens of published essays and more than 1,500 public lectures across the United States...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth25 May 1803
CountryUnited States of America
Our statute is a currency which we stamp with our own portrait.
Ah, if the rich were rich as the poor fancy riches.
Life itself is ... a sleep within a sleep.
A human being should beware how he laughs, for then he shows all his faults.
If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads, just one year afterwards.
Every man is entitled to be valued by his best moment.
Commonsense is the wick of the candle.
A rush of thoughts is the only conceivable prosperity that can come to us.
Be a football to Time and Chance, the more kicks, the better, so that you inspect the whole game and know its utmost law.
Women, as most susceptible, are the best index of the coming hour.
It is better to suffer injustice than to do it.
When it comes to divide an estate, the politest men quarrel.
The blazing evidence of immortality is our dissatisfaction with any other solution.
A nation, like a tree, does not thrive well till it is engraffed with a foreign stock.