Ralph Waldo Emerson Atoms Quotations

'Tis a superstition to insist on a special diet. All is made at last of the same chemical atoms.

For the world was built in order around the atoms march in tune; Rhyme the pipe, and Time the warder, The sun obeys them, and the moon.

Not a ray is dimmed, not an atom worn; nature's oldest force is as good as new.

How silent, how spacious, what room for all, yet without place to insert an atom--in graceful succession, in equal fullness, in balanced beauty, the dance of the hours goes forward still. Like an odor of incense, like a strain of music, like a sleep, it is inexact and boundless. It will not be dissected, nor unraveled, nor shown.