More quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

"There is creative reading as well as creative writing."
"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."
"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
"By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote."
"He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy, the first political party he meets — most likely his father's. He gets rest, commodity, and reputation; but he shuts the door of truth."