More quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Every artist was first an amateur."
"Of all the ways to lose a person, death is the kindest."
"With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now."
"Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood."
"It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself."