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
We wake from one dream into another dream.
The riddle of the age has for each a private solution.
No society can ever be so large as one man.
When we are exalted by ideas, we do not owe this to Plato, but to the idea, to which also Plato was debtor.
We do not make a world of our own, but fall into institutions already made, and have to accommodate ourselves to them to be useful at all.
Happy the man who never puts on a face, but receives every visitor with that countenance he has on.
The reason of idleness and of crime is the deferring of our hopes.
Overhead the sanctities of the stars shine forever-more... pouring satire on the pompous business of the day which they close, and making the generations of men show slight and evanescent.
Heaven is large, and affords space for all modes of love and fortitude.
Let a man behave in his own house as a guest.
Every roof is agreeable to the eye, until it is lifted; then we find tragedy and moaning women, and hard-eyed husbands.
Persons are fine things, but they cost so much! for thee I must pay me.
How much finer things are in composition than alone.
In a tavern everybody puts on airs except the landlord.