More quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm."
"Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art."
"Tis the good reader that makes the good book."
"Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakenly meant for his ear; the profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader; the profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until it is discovered by an equal mind and heart."
"Books are for nothing but to inspire"