More quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Books are for nothing but to inspire"
"The secret of poetry is never explained - is always new. We have not got farther than mere wonder at the delicacy of the touch, & the eternity it inherits. In every house a child that in mere play utters oracles, & knows not that they are such. 'Tis as easy as breath. 'Tis like this gravity, which holds the Universe together, & none knows what it is."
"Make the most of yourself....for that is all there is of you."
"I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me."
"Tis the good reader that makes the good book."