More quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil."
"The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn"
"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."
"To fill the hour──that is happiness."
"A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends."