More quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year."
"Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art."
"In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity."
"Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed."
"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."