More quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much."
"With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now."
"The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next."
"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."
"He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life."