More quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer."
"Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet."
"It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them."
"Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best minds. Men live the brink of mysteries and harmonies into which they never enter, and with their hands on the door-latch they die outside."
"None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone."