More quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

"In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity."
"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."
"Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up"
"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."
"The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next."