More quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends."
"That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased."
"The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn"
"He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy, the first political party he meets — most likely his father's. He gets rest, commodity, and reputation; but he shuts the door of truth."
"Tis the good reader that makes the good book."