About Ralph Waldo Emerson:
Ralph 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.
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTo stand in true relations with men in a false age is worth a fit of insanity, is it not?
Ralph Waldo Emerson