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
Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.
Friends should be like books, easy to find when you need them, but seldom used.
Few and mean as my gifts may be, I actually am, and do not need for my own assurance or the assurance of my fellows any secondary testimony.
As long as any man exists, there is some need of him.
You need someone who can inspire you to be what you know you can be
A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence.
Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms.
Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?
If you visit your friend, why need you apologize for not having visited him, and waste his time and deface your own act? Visit him now.
The need for a rational consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds.
If you want a friend you need to be a friend.
A farm is a good thing, when it begins and ends with itself, and does not need a salary, or a shop, to eke it out.
The eyes of men converse as much as their tongues, with the advantage that the ocular dialect needs no dictionary, but is understood all the world over.
Character wants room; must not be crowded on by persons, nor be judged from glimpses got in the press of affairs, or on few occasions. It needs perspective, as a great building.