More quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood."
"Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best minds. Men live the brink of mysteries and harmonies into which they never enter, and with their hands on the door-latch they die outside."
"Pictures must not be too picturesque."
"There is creative reading as well as creative writing."
"By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote."