Passages marked in Emerson’s essays:

“Greatness”:

“In morals this is conscience; in intellect, genius; in practice, talent.”

“Thus if you are a scholar . . . because he makes nothing else.”

“No way has been found for making heroism easy. . . blows by making them   true of ourselves.”

“Immortality”

Marked above the quoted poem: “Don’t waste life in doubts and fears.”

“That the world is for his education is the only sane solution of the enigma.”

“I confess that everything connected . . . the soul stipulates for no private good.”

“Inspiration”:

Poem: “And after every late morning / Followed unprofitable days”

French passage marked

“And it is a primal rule . . . which task?”

“Solitary converse with nature” to start of quoted poem

“Poetry and Imagination”:

“If your subject do not appear . . . . He is calm and elevated.”

“I know there is entertainment . . . into prophets and teachers.”

“Rhyme being a kind of music . . . launch on the seat of ideas and emotions.”

“Self-Reliance”

Passage how not to travel and how “the wise man stays at home” crossed out.

“Social Aims”

End of paragraph: “Thus much for manners.”

“I am not ignorant. . . tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow.”

“He must be inestimable to us to whom we can say what we cannot say to ourselves.”

” . . . the incomparable satisfaction of a society in which everything can be safely said.”

“It is this that justifies to each the jealousy . . . . He of all men would keep the right choice sacred.”

”Our chief want in life . . . the nadir under us.”

“Bolt these out.”

“. . . always some weary captious paradox to fight you with, and the time and temper wasted.”