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
The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.
Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
Every word was once a poem. Every new relation is a new word.
Conversation is an evanescent relation,--no more.
Our relations to each other are oblique and casual.
All infractions of love and equity in our social relations are ... punished by fear.
Our health is our sound relation to external objects; our sympathy with external being.
Take egotism out and you would castrate the benefactors.
When the man is at home, his standing in society is well known and quietly taken; but when he is abroad, it is problematical, and is dependent on the success of his manners.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
All diseases run into one, old age.
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
The Sky is the daily bread of the imagination
The times are the masquerade of the eternities