Life is a progress, and not a station.Ralph Waldo Emerson
“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.”
“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.”
— RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Essayist and philosopher · 1803 – 1882
Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist and philosopher who led the Transcendentalist movement, arguing for self-reliance, intuition and the spiritual presence in nature. His essays 'Nature' and 'Self-Reliance' shaped American thought, and he mentored both Thoreau and Whitman.
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