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
There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Nor sequent centuries could hit Orbit and sum of Shakespeare's wit
The times are the masquerade of the eternities
Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel
Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
The maxim of the tyrant, 'If you would rule the world quietly, you must keep it amused
The god of victory is said to be one-handed, but peace gives victory on both sides.
The fundaments of a person are not in substance, but in spirits.
The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog, individualizing everything, generalizing nothing, delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic. She has tasked every faculty, and has secured the symmetrical growth of the bodily frame, by all these attitudes and exertions --an end of the first importance, which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own.
The finished man of the world must eat every apple once.
The highest compact we can make with our fellow is: Let there be truth between us two forevermore