More quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakenly meant for his ear; the profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader; the profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until it is discovered by an equal mind and heart."
"Of all the ways to lose a person, death is the kindest."
"In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine."
"Books are for nothing but to inspire"
"People do not deserve good writing, they are so pleased with bad."