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 is always a best way of doing everything, if it be to boil an egg
The best efforts of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.
The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence
The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.
A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.
There is always a best way of doing everything.
The next best thing to saying a good thing yourself is to quote one.
All the world loves a lover.
The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.
Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self.
The best picture makes us say, I am a painter also.
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
The Sky is the daily bread of the imagination
The times are the masquerade of the eternities