More quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

"If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads."
"If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and adore."
"What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find."
"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."
"Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true."