"Black men built the railroads, not blue..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Each man too is a tyrant in tendency, because he would impose his idea on others; and their trick is their natural defence. Jesuswould absorb the race; but Tom Paine or the coarsest blasphemer helps humanity by resisting this exuberance of power.”

“The perception of the comic is a tie of sympathy with other men.”

“Why should I hasten to solve every riddle which life offers me? I am well assured that the Questioner, who brings me so many problems, will bring me the answers also, in due time.”

“It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.”

“Periods' are largely an invention of the historians. The poets themselves are not conscious of living in any period and refuse to conform to the scheme.”

“If at times our actions seem to make life difficult for others, it is only because history has made life difficult for us all.”

“What the two hands of the labourer can achieve, the capitalist will never get with all his gold and silver.”

“Labor is superior to capital and precedes capital. Without labor, there is no capital.”

“The Earth is given as a common for men to labor and live in.”