More quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

"It is not the length of life, but the depth."
"Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art."
"Make the most of yourself....for that is all there is of you."
"The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs."
"The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common."