I am reading "Self-Reliance" by Ralph Waldo Emerson, and I was wondering what the summaries for each paragraph are?

I assume you are reading the edited version as given in
the Holt textbook, Elements of Literature. You might find it
helpful to try and read through each paragraph yourself and then summarise the key ideas
before looking at these suggestions. A summary, of course, cannot hope to capture all
the ideas but will just give you a flavour of the text. Anyway, here are my suggestions
of how to summarise the selection - there are five paragraphs in
total.

1) People eventually come to realise that they have
to be self-sufficient and that they will find happiness when they have done their best
in their work.

2) People need to have faith in themselves
and in their place in the world.

3) Society acts against
the self-reliance of individuals.

4) To be a proper person,
you need to find your own way in the world and not conform to
society.

5) Consistency prevents people from exploring and
fulfilling their own potential.

Having read these, it would
be well worth your time to go back and read the selection again to see if these provide
hooks to further your understanding of what Emerson was writing about. Good
luck!