More quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Of all the ways to lose a person, death is the kindest."
"A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer."
"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."
"It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself."
"Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings."