More quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

"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."
"Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much."
"Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not."
"The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn"
"Books are for nothing but to inspire"