More quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

"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."
"The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common."
"What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find."
"Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great."
"You become what you think about all day long."