More quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures."
"There is one other reason for dressing well, namely that dogs respect it, and will not attack you in good clothes."
"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."
"By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote."
"I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me."