More quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

"No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong is what is against it."
"Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them."
"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."
"With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now."
"To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom."