More quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakenly meant for his ear; the profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader; the profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until it is discovered by an equal mind and heart."
"His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong"
"It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them."
"Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it--else it is none."
"Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not."