More quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Every word was once a poem."
"What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find."
"No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong is what is against it."
"If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads."
"That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased."