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 ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Set on an evening in September 1871, the play finds sixty-eight-year-old Ralph ...

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 ...

Since 1864, the White Fund has presented a wide range of speakers, always pushing the dialogue of the times. From Ralph Waldo Emerson, Booker T. Washington to telephone pioneer Thomas ...

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 ...

Like many people, Berkshire Hathaway chairman Warren Buffett followed a parent's career path: His father owned a stock brokerage firm before later embarking on a political career. Needless to say, the ...

It was 1864, a year before the Civil War’s end. Transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson, poet Oliver Wendell Holmes, and author and abolitionist Richard Dana were among the speakers in the ...

John A Andersen John's favorite quote, by Ralph Waldo Emerson: "The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have made some difference that you ...

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 ...