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
Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.
I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.
The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.
Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.
Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole.
Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.
In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.
Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.
Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
Every burned book enlightens the world.
Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.