More quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

"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."
"You become what you think about all day long."
"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."
"That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased."
"The secret of poetry is never explained - is always new. We have not got farther than mere wonder at the delicacy of the touch, & the eternity it inherits. In every house a child that in mere play utters oracles, & knows not that they are such. 'Tis as easy as breath. 'Tis like this gravity, which holds the Universe together, & none knows what it is."