More quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

"With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now."
"The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained and he only holds the key to his own secret."
"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."
"Of all the ways to lose a person, death is the kindest."
"Always do what you are afraid to do."