More quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

"That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased."
"The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs."
"Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not."
"If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and adore."
"A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature."