The Portable Emerson Quotes

“Truly speaking, it is not instruction, but provocation, that I can receive from another soul. What he announces, I must find true in me, or reject; and on his word, or as his second, be he who he may, I can accept nothing.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Portable Emerson

“The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Portable Emerson