More quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

"What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find."
"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."
"Tis the good reader that makes the good book."
"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
"Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not."