He needs no library, for he has not done thinking; no church, for he is himself a prophet; no statute book, for he hath the Lawgiver; no money, for he is value itself; no road, for he is at home where he is.

To laugh often and much ... this is to have succeeded. Probably not from Emerson: here's the full quotation and the story.

We live in a system of approximations. Every end is prospective of some other end, which is also temporary; a round and final success nowhere. We are encamped in nature, not domesticated.

I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven.

We fancy men are individuals; so are pumpkins; but every pumpkin in the field goes through every point of pumpkin history.

The universal soul is the alone creator of the useful and the beautiful; therefore to make anything useful or beautiful, the individual must be submitted to the universal mind.

Wouldst thou shut up the avenues of ill, Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.