"When a whole nation is roaring patriotism..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Life is unnecessarily long. Moments of insight, of fine personal relation, a smile, a glance,--what ample borrowers of eternity they are!”

“Men lose their tempers in defending their taste.”

“There is no one who does not exaggerate!”

“By the rude bridge that arched the flood,Their flag to April's breeze unfurled,Here once the embattled farmers stood,And fired the shot heard round the world.The foe long since in silence slept;Alike the conqueror silent sleeps;And Time the ruined bridge has sweptDown the dark stream which seaward creeps.On this green bank, by this soft stream,We set to-day a votive stone;That memory may their deed redeem,When, like our sires, our sons are gone.”

“But stories that live longestAre sung above the glass,And Parnell loved his countryAnd Parnell loved his lass.”

“In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell.”

“I wish to see, in process of disappearing, that only thing which ever could bring this nation to civil war.”

“The United States of America will sound as pompously in the world or in history as The Kingdom of Great Britain.”

“The land was ours before we were the land's. She was our land more than a hundred years Before we were her people.”