Every[one] I meet is in some way my superior. Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Quote More from Ralph Waldo Emerson “I am God in nature;I am a weed by the wall.” “Miss Austen’s novels … seem to me vulgar in tone, sterile in artistic invention…” “The law of nature is alternation for evermore. Each electrical state superinduc…” “Beauty without expression is boring.”