Ralph Waldo Emerson Essays: Self Reliance, The Over-Soul, Commodity, Nature, and Wealth

"Ne te quaesiveris extra.""Man is his own star; and the soul that canRender an honest and a perfect man,Commands all light, all influence, all fate;Nothing to him falls early or too late.Our acts our angels are, or good or ill,Our fatal shadows that walk by us still."Epilogue to Beaumont and Fletcher's Honest Man's FortuneCast the bantling on the rocks,Suckle him with the she-wolf's teat;Wintered with the hawk and fox,Power and speed be hands and feet.