"The population of the world is a..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“In the last analysis, love is only the reflection of a man's own worthiness from other men.”

“Life is wasted in the necessary preparation of finding what is the true way, and we die just as we enter it.”

“People say law but they mean wealth.”

“If I may ride with you, Citizen Evremonde, will you let me hold your hand? I am not afraid, but I am little and weak, and it will give me more courage." As the patient eyes were lifted to his face, he saw a sudden doubt in them, and then astonishment. He pressed the work-worn, hunger-worn young fingers, and touched his lips. "Are you dying for him?" she whispered. "And his wife and child. Hush! Yes." "Oh, you will let me hold your brave hand, stranger?" "Hush! Yes, my poor sister; to the last.”

“Nature is truly wonderful. Only man is truly foul.”

“Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.”

“A hero is not a champion of things become, but of things becoming; the dragon to be slain by him is precisely the monster of the status quo.”

“Nothing could be more jolting and discordant with the vision of today's intellectuals than the fact that it was businessmen, devout religious leaders and Western imperialists who together destroyed slavery around the world. And if it doesn't fit their vision, it is the same to them as if it never happened.”

“And while you bring all countries with you, you come with a purpose of leaving all other countries behind you - bringing what is best of their spirit, but not looking over your shoulders and seeking to perpetuate what you intended to leave behind in them.”