Quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson's books, and about them
Nature on The Tempest: “…might be illustrated by a thousand examples from his Plays. I have before me the Tempest, and will cite only these few lines.”
Nature on Antigone: “Is not the charm of one of Plato's or Aristotle's definitions, strictly like that of the Antigone of Sophocles?”
Representative Men on Aesop's Fables: “Vedas, Aesop's Fables, Pilpay, Arabian Nights, Cid, Iliad, Robin Hood, Scottish Minstrelsy, are not the work of single men.”
Representative Men on Robin Hood: “Vedas, Aesop's Fables, Pilpay, Arabian Nights, Cid, Iliad, Robin Hood, Scottish Minstrelsy, are not the work of single men.”
Representative Men on The Essays: “A single odd volume of Cotton's translation of the Essays remained to me from my father's library, when a boy.”
Representative Men on Conjugial Love: “In the "Conjugal Love," he has unfolded the science of marriage. Of this book, one would say, that, with the highest elements, it has failed of success.”
Representative Men on The Animal Kingdom: “The "Animal Kingdom" is a book of wonderful merits. It was written with the highest end,--to put science and the soul, long estranged from each other”
Representative Men on Italian Journey: “His "Daily and Yearly Journal," his "Italian Travels," his "Campaign in France" and the historical part of his "Theory of Colors," have the same interest.”
Representative Men on A Thousand and One Nights: “Vedas, Aesop's Fables, Pilpay, Arabian Nights, Cid, Iliad, Robin Hood, Scottish Minstrelsy, are not the work of single men.”