More quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Life is a train of moods like a string of beads; and as we pass through them they prove to be many colored lenses, which paint the world their own hue, and each shows us only what lies in its own focus."
"A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature."
"Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science."
"With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now."
"A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking."