More quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

"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."
"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
"His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong"
"Life is a train of moods like a string of beads; and as we pass through them they prove to be many colored lenses, which paint the world their own hue, and each shows us only what lies in its own focus."
"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm."