"To finish the moment, to find the..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Wherever there is power, there is age. Don't be deceived by dimples and curls. I tell you that babe is a thousand years old.”

“Of all tools, an observatory is the most sublime. . . . What is so good in a college as an observatory? The sublime attaches to the door and to the first stair you ascent, that this is the road to the stars.”

“For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings, and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and anon a word, a verse, and substitute something of our own, and thus miswrite the poem.”

“Those who seek knowledge, collect something every day. Those who seek the Way, let go of something every day.”

“He who takes nature for his guide, is not easily beaten out of his argument”

“Wisdom adorneth riches and casteth a shadow over poverty.”

“Every man has a right to life, and this means that he has also a right to make a comfortable living.”

“When we really live truth, we will cease to talk about it.”

“Lord, let me live until I die.”