More quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Of all the ways to lose a person, death is the kindest."
"All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better."
"The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs."
"The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next."
"Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood."