More quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

"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."
"Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great."
"If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads."
"Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it--else it is none."
"Be an opener of doors"