More quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

"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."
"A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking."
"It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them."
"No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong is what is against it."
"A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer."