More quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

"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."
"A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking."
"A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature."
"All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen."
"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."