More quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next."
"The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs."
"A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking."
"The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained and he only holds the key to his own secret."
"The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn"