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"The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe? Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?
-Emerson

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"All men recognize the right of revolution; that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable. But almost all say that such is not the case now."
-Thoraeu

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"Emerson knew that the freedom to be isolated, alone, adrift in the vacuum of autonomy."
-Wolfe

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"The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and the heart of the child. The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood."
-Emerson

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"every action admits of being outdone. Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle, another can be drawn"
-Emerson

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"In Nature, Emerson had already reminded us that property "is a preceptor whose  lessons cannot be foregone," that it is "the surface action of an internal machinery, like the index of the face of a clock," that our relationship to it reflects our "experience in profounder laws.”
-Wolfe

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"All I know is reception. I am and I have: but I do not get, and when I have fancied that I have gotten anything, I found I did not"
-Emerson

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The Emersonian self loses the world of experience and possession, but only to enable a more fundamental-and fundamentally trans-historical-kind of possession."
-Wolfe

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"Self-existence is the attribute of the Supreme Cause, and it constitutes the measure of good by the degree in which it enters into all lower forms. All things real are so by so much virtue as they contain."
-Emerson

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"He who gives himself entirely to his fellow men appears to them useless and selfish; but he who gives himself partially to them is pronounced a benefactor and philanthropist."
-Thoraeu

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"Those who, while they disapprove of the character and measures of a government, yield to it their allegiance and support are undoubtedly its most conscientious supporters, and so frequently the most serious obstacles to reform."
-Thoraeu

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"Fear and hope are alike beneath it. There is somewhat low even in hope. In the hour of vision, there is nothing that can be called gratitude, nor properly joy. The soul raised over passion beholds identity and eternal causation, perceives the self-existence of Truth and Right, and calms itself with knowing that all things go well."
-Emerson

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"Man is timid and apologetic; he is no longer upright; he dares not say 'I think,' 'I am,' but quotes some saint or sage."
-Emerson

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"There I feel that nothing can befall me in life, — no disgrace, no calamity, (leaving me my eyes,) which nature cannot repair. Standing on the bare ground, — my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space, — all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eye-ball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God."
-Emerson