A gift for a friend, regarding Emerson

I dug out some of my old books and began flipping through them. I love the smell of an old book, with the odor it gives of with it's yellow tarnished pages. Which always leaves me thinking about the people that read it before me and their interpretions, where it guided them, or if they just read it because they simply had to.
I caught myself looking back into Emersons "Over Soul" piece earlier and found a statement he made. I will not give you the whole of where I looked, but just a piece to save room and to point out what caught my eye the most.

We shall catch many hints that will broaden and lighten into knowledge of the secret of nature. All goes to show that the soul in man is not an organ, but animates and exercises all the organs; is not a function, like the power of memory, of calculation, of comparison, but uses these as hands and feet; is not a faculty but a light; is not the intellect or the will, but the master of the intellect and the will; is the background in which they lie
It goes on and on throughout his Essay, though I thought this might grab you.