More quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

"There is one other reason for dressing well, namely that dogs respect it, and will not attack you in good clothes."
"What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find."
"He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses."
"Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect."
"It is not the length of life, but the depth."