More quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

"For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness."
"It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself."
"A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends."
"Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures."
"If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads."