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 virtue of books is to be readable.
Beauty is the mark God sets upon virtue.
The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
Tart, cathartic virtue.
All the devils respect virtue.
The only reward of virtue is virtue.
The highest virtue is always against the law.
Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the exception than the rule. There is the man and his virtues.
There is a capacity of virtue in us, and there is a capacity of vice to make your blood creep.
The cardinal virtue of a teacher [is] to protect the pupil from his own influence.
I think no virtue goes with size.
For, truly speaking, whoever provokes me to a good act or thought has given me a pledge of his fidelity to virtue,--he has come under the bonds to adhere to that cause to which we are jointly attached.
There is also something excellent in every audience,--the capacity of virtue. They are ready to be beatified.
There is genius as well in virtue as in intellect. 'Tis the doctrine of faith over works.