More quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Books are for nothing but to inspire"
"The reward of a thing well done is having done it."
"A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends."
"By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote."
"Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale 'til its appropriate liberator comes to set it free."