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
Nor sequent centuries could hit Orbit and sum of Shakespeare's wit
No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby - so helpless and so ridiculous.
True wit never made us laugh.
The finest wits have their sediment.
Of all wit's uses, the main one is to live well with who has none.
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions.
I knew a witty physician who found theology in the biliary duct, and used to affirm that if there was a disease in the liver, the man became a Calvinist, and if that organ was sound, he became a Unitarian.
For every grain of wit there is a grain of folly.
The reliance on authority measures the decline of religion, the withdrawal of the soul.
Nor sequent centuries could hitOrbit and sum of Shakespeare's wit.
Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
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