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
Tis a rule of manners to avoid exaggeration.
We sometimes meet an original gentleman, who, if manners had not existed, would have invented them.
Manners are the happy ways of doing things.
The basis of good manners is self-reliance.
Manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth.
Manners are very communicable: men catch them from each other.
Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each once a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage.
The first point of courtesy must always be truth.
Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.
The Sky is the daily bread of the imagination
The times are the masquerade of the eternities
Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful
Things have their laws as well as men; things refuse to be trifled with.
The whole secret of the teacher's force lies in the conviction that man are convertible.