More quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not."
"Every artist was first an amateur."
"Tis the good reader that makes the good book."
"Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul"
"The secret of poetry is never explained - is always new. We have not got farther than mere wonder at the delicacy of the touch, & the eternity it inherits. In every house a child that in mere play utters oracles, & knows not that they are such. 'Tis as easy as breath. 'Tis like this gravity, which holds the Universe together, & none knows what it is."