More quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained and he only holds the key to his own secret."
"Be an opener of doors"
"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."
"To fill the hour──that is happiness."
"What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you."