More quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Tis the good reader that makes the good book."
"All mankind love a lover."
"Pictures must not be too picturesque."
"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."
"It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them."