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 way to write is to throw your body at the mark when your arrows are spent.
There is always a best way of doing everything.
Why should the way I feel depend on the thoughts in someone else's head?
General ideas are essences. They are our gods: they round and ennoble the most partial and sordid way of living.
There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of doing things.
Manners are the happy ways of doing things.
It all begins when the soul would have its way with you.
He that rides his hobby gently must always give way to him that rides his hobby hard.
Nature is no spendthrift, but takes the shortest way to her ends.
I ought to go upright and vital, and speak the rude truth in all ways.
Of all the ways to lose a person, death is the kindest
Others can get in your way temporarily, but only you can get out of your way permanently. Our best thoughts come from others.
My tongue is prone to lose the way,Not so my pen, for in a letterWe have not better things to say,But surely put them better.
No rent-roll nor army-list can dignify skulking and dissimulation: and the first point of courtesy must always be truth, as really all the forms of good-breeding point that way.