More quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect."
"None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone."
"Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it--else it is none."
"Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale 'til its appropriate liberator comes to set it free."
"The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common."