More quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

"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."
"Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them."
"Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science."
"The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn"