Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
To aim to convert a man by miracles is a profanation of the soul.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "An Address Delivered Before the Senior Class in Divinity College, Cambridge." Nature; Addresses, and Lectures. James Munroe and Company, 1849, p. 129.
Even such a brilliant and modern reformer as Wesley opposed the movement to stop persecuting and prosecuting witches.
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 was seen as a champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society, and he disseminated his thoughts through dozens of published essays and more than 1,500 public lectures across the United States.