"Each age, it is found, must write..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Man was born to be rich, or grow rich by use of his faculties, by the union of thought with nature. Property is an intellectual production. The game requires coolness, right reasoning, promptness, and patience in the players.”

“But a public oration is an escapade, a non-committal, an apology, a gag, and not a communication, not a speech, not a man.”

“If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.”

“The heroic books, even if printed in the character of our mother tongue, will always be in a language dead to degenerate times; and we must laboriously seek the meaning of each word and line, conjecturing a larger sense than common use permits out of what wisdom and valor and generosity we have. The modern cheap and fertile press, with all its translations, has done little to bring us nearer to the heroic writers of antiquity. They seem as solitary, and the letter in which they are printed as rare and curious, as ever.”

“I have read your book, and I disapprove.”

“I must warn you that the books I like are not necessarily the ones I think are the best. I like them for various reasons not always easy to explain.”

“Education is only the most fully conscious of the channels whereby each generation influences the next.”

“One generation passeth away and another generation cometh, but the earth abideth forever.”

“Every generation needs a new revolution.”