More quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends."
"In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity."
"That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased."
"When it is dark enough, you can see the stars."
"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."