More quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

"With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now."
"To fill the hour──that is happiness."
"In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine."
"The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil."
"No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong is what is against it."