Born 1803-05-25
Died 1882-04-27
Writer and poet.
Created 2001-01-17 by Pete.
Last modified 2015-11-05 by Pete

Quotes (5)

"Always do what you are afraid to do."
"The reward for a thing well done is to have done it."
"I hate quotations. Tell me what you know."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson , from his journal (1843)
"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say."

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds

- Ralph Waldo Emerson , from Self-Reliance