Part of the power of Emerson's individualism is his insistence, at crucial moments, that individualism does not mean isolation or self-sufficiency. T…

- Robert D. Richardson

Just as science is more immediate and exciting than the history of science, so is insight more compelling than a history of insight.

- Robert D. Richardson

[Emerson] was interested not in the bookworm, not even in the thinker, only in Man Thinking.

- Robert D. Richardson

If death is the end of everything, then living is everything.

- Robert D. Richardson