More quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Every word was once a poem."
"Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet."
"Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up"
"It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself."
"Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect."