More quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Every artist was first an amateur."
"Some books leave us free and some books make us free."
"Life consists of what man is thinking about all day."
"There is one other reason for dressing well, namely that dogs respect it, and will not attack you in good clothes."
"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."