An American author, development critic, transcendentalist, pacifist, and philosopher.. American author poet philosopher abolitionist naturalist tax resister development critic surveyor historian and leading transcendentalist
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The man for whom law exists - the man of forms, the Conservative, is a tame man. Go to Quote / Comment
A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom. - from Live Without Principle Go to Quote / Comment
There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages. Go to Quote / Comment
I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well. Go to Quote / Comment
Humor, however broad and genial, takes a narrower view than enthusiasm. Go to Quote / Comment