More quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

"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."
"Some books leave us free and some books make us free."
"Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed."
"The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well."
"Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not."