Favourite Essays: An Anthology

I would like to preface this review by saying that the body of the review has a lot "spiritual" talk and some people may find my words trite and very syrupy about my inner thoughts on life. So if you are feeling cynical right now, I think you will have a good chuckle. And, if you are like me, someon......more

No review, just one quote about children from the essay "Nature": Read it, it's kind of funny.The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon......more

Emerson, for whom my eldest son is named, had a profound effect on me as a teenager. His essays were the first piece of "serious" literature I undertook to read for personal education around age 16. Though I can't say I wholly subscribe to them these days, his ideas on individualist spirituality res......more

Emerson, oh so wise: A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us. A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. A great man is always willing to be little. A man is what he thinks about all day long. All life is an experiment. The more experiments yo......more

My mother gave me her copy of this a few years ago. Finally picked it up at just the right time, and holy crap is this good. Some of it I didn't get or had a hard time with the language or just didn't feel like reading about the particular essay topic that day. Most was just clear as a bell and ric......more