爱默生散文笔记之一

1. The wise man shows his wisdom in separation, in gradation, and his scale of creatures and of merits is as wide as nature. The foolish have no range in their scale, but suppose every man is as every other man. What is not good they call the worst, and what is not hateful, they call the best. P33

2. Each creature is only a modification of the other; the likeness in them is more than the difference, and their radical law is one and the same. P36

3. The best moments of life are these delicious awakenings of the higher powers, and the reverential withdrawing of nature before its God. P40

4. No man is its enemy. It accepts whatsoever befalls, as part of its lesson. It is a watcher more than a doer, and it is a doer, only that it may the better watch. P50