Essays and Poems QUOTES

1 " When its errands are noble and adequate, a steamboat bridging the Atlantic between Old and New England, and arriving at its ports with the punctuality of a planet, is a step of man into harmony with nature. The boat at St. Petersburgh, which plies along the Lena by magnetism, needs little to make it sublime. When science is learned in love, and its powers are wielded by love, they will appear the supplements and continuations of the material creation. "

― Ralph Waldo Emerson , Essays and Poems

3 " In the woods, we return to reason and faith. "

― Ralph Waldo Emerson , Essays and Poems

5 " Beauty is its own excuse for being. "

― Ralph Waldo Emerson , Essays and Poems

7 " Announced by all the trumpets of the sky,
Arrives the snow, and, driving o'er the fields,
Seems nowhere to alight "

― Ralph Waldo Emerson , Essays and Poems

9 " Man is explicable by nothing less than all his history. "

― Ralph Waldo Emerson , Essays and Poems

11 " Clouded and shrouded there doth sit The Infinite embosomed in a man. "

― Ralph Waldo Emerson , Essays and Poems

13 " But Homer's words are as costly and admirable to Homer, as Agamemnon's victories are to Agamemnon "

― Ralph Waldo Emerson , Essays and Poems