More quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

"It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself."
"Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul"
"The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well."
"With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now."
"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."