More quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood."
"For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness."
"The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained and he only holds the key to his own secret."
"If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and adore."
"If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads."