"There are no fixtures in nature. The..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The rage for road building is beneficent for America, where vast distance is so main a consideration in our domestic politics andtrade, inasmuch as the great political promise of the invention is to hold the Union staunch, whose days already seem numbered by the mere inconvenience of transporting representatives, judges and officers across such tedious distances of land and water.”

“'Well,' said Red Jacket [to someone complaining that he had not enough time], 'I suppose you have all there is.'”

“For splendor, there must somewhere be rigid economy. That the head of the house may go brave, the members must be plainly clad, and the town must save that the State may spend.”

“Change is inherent in every form.”

“Politics, differences of religion or race, all that fades away when we are confronted with the awesome power of nature, and we're reminded that all we have is each other.”

“It is the same life that emerges in joy through the dust of the earth into numberless waves of flower.”

“Because you aren't just someone I loved back then. You were my best friend, my best self, and I can't imagine giving that up again." He hesitated searching for the right words. "You might not understand, but I gave you the best of me, and after you left, nothing was ever the same.”

“I no longer want to walk on worn soles.”

“Meanness is incurable; it cannot be cured by old age, or by anything else.”