More quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings."
"People do not deserve good writing, they are so pleased with bad."
"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."
"For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness."
"If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and adore."