More quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not."
"Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself."
"A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking."
"Every word was once a poem."
"Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it--else it is none."