More quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Of all the ways to lose a person, death is the kindest."
"What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find."
"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm."
"Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them."
"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."