The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later. Auteur: Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Quote More from Ralph Waldo Emerson “We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken. (Despite) all the selfi…” “It is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem,—a thought so p…” “The world -- this shadow of the soul, or other me, lies wide around. Its attrac…” “Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine.”