More quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Tis the good reader that makes the good book."
"To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom."
"Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures."
"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."
"The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next."