Quote of the Day

"Be an opener of doors."

• Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson, who went by his middle name Waldo, was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, abolitionist, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He remains among the linchpins of the American romantic movement, and his work has greatly influenced the thinkers, writers and poets that followed him.