More quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Always do what you are afraid to do."
"The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs."
"Books are for nothing but to inspire"
"If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and adore."
"Pictures must not be too picturesque."