A Collector's Edition of Quotations by Ralph Waldo Emerson -- an A to Z compendium of wit and wisdom from the Great American Essayist, founder of Transcendentalism, one of the sages of the ages -- who taught that "Thoughts rule the world." Emerson's greatest quotations and essential ideas on a wide variety of subjects are here, arranged alphabetically by topic or keyword, with references. Edited by Alex Ayres, Harvard and UCLA-educated writer and editor of the Wit and Wisdom series, whose previous bestsellers include The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain (Harper-Collins) and The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln (Penguin).