Ralph Waldo Emerson was one of the American Transcendentalists of the 19th century, along with Henry David Thoreau and others. They produced a literary journal called The Dial in Concord, Massachusetts.

Emerson was known for his spiritual essays like, Self-Reliance and Nature, usually on sturdy American themes. One of my favorite quotations of his is this:

“Do not go where the path may lead,
Go instead where there is no path, and leave a trail.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson