More quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

"In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine."
"If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads."
"It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them."
"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."
"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."