More quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature."
"Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."
"Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakenly meant for his ear; the profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader; the profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until it is discovered by an equal mind and heart."
"Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul"
"Books are for nothing but to inspire"