More quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

"No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong is what is against it."
"In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine."
"Books are for nothing but to inspire"
"Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale 'til its appropriate liberator comes to set it free."
"What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you."