"The things we now esteem fixed shall,..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The power men possess to annoy me I give them by a weak curiosity”

“Yet America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.”

“Where is he who seeing a thousand men useless and unhappy, and making the whole region forlorn by their inaction, and conscious himself of possessing the faculty they want, does not hear his call to go and be their king?”

“Don't spend your precious time asking "Why isn't the world a better place?" It will only be time wasted. The question to ask is "How can I make it better?" To that there is an answer.”

“There is no history of how bad became better.”

“If you want to make enemies, try to change something.”

“From dream to dream and rhyme to rhyme I have ranged / In rambling talk with an image of air: / Vague memories, nothing but memories.”

“No same man could walk through the same river twice, as the man and the river have since changed.”

“What do we call the river? Every moment the water is changing, the shore is changing, every moment the environment is changing, what is the river then? It is the name of this series of changes.”