More quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

"When it is dark enough, you can see the stars."
"The reward of a thing well done is having done it."
"Life is a train of moods like a string of beads; and as we pass through them they prove to be many colored lenses, which paint the world their own hue, and each shows us only what lies in its own focus."
"I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me."
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."