More quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
"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."
"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."
"When you were born you were crying and everyone else was smiling. Live your life so at the end, your're the one who is smiling and everyone else is crying."
"Tis the good reader that makes the good book."