More quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

"What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find."
"People do not deserve good writing, they are so pleased with bad."
"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm."
"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."
"What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you."