Quote of the day by Ralph Waldo Emerson highlights that true success is measured not by avoiding failure but by rising each ...

The Emmy-winning actor voices legendary writer Ralph Waldo Emerson in PBS's new 'Henry David Thoreau' docuseries ...

Thoreau moves in with Ralph Waldo Emerson's family, but personal tragedy strikes both families. Ralph Waldo Emerson invites Thoreau to move in with his family, and Emerson mentors Thoreau to help him ...

In “The Late George Apley,” Ronald Colman, playing the stuffy Bostonian of the film’s title, has on his shelf of classics a collection of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s essays. By the late 19th century the ...

The American Theatre of Actors has announced a special one-night-only performance of Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Sage of Concord, a new play by Philip Paradis. This engaging biographical work offers an ...

Don't say too much; don't say too little. That's what it takes to be a very good writer (That's #1). A hundred or so years ago, Emerson figured that out. Though he didn't publish an advice book for ...

America's declaration of political independence is a story Americans are familiar with. But few know the story of America's declaration of cultural independence, which took the form of a speech by ...

In an essay he penned in 1841, Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote “a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.” People cite that statement to this day because foolish consistency plays a role in ...

Poet Ralph Waldo Emerson said our world consisted of “strings of tension waiting to be struck”. But our world was already ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. In 1832, Ralph Waldo Emerson had a crisis of faith and resigned as a Unitarian minister at the Second Church of Boston ...