"Nor sequent centuries could hitOrbit and sum..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“As the farmer casts into the ground the finest ears of his grain, the time will come when we too shall hold nothing back, but shall eagerly convert more than we now possess into means and powers, when we shall be willing to sow the sun and the moon for seeds.”

“The world leaves no track in space, and the greatest action of man no mark in the vast idea.”

“Our spontaneous action is always the best. You cannot, with your best deliberation and heed, come so close to any question as your spontaneous glance shall bring you.”

“After making a mistake or suffering a misfortune, the man of genius always gets back on his feet.”

“To see things in the seed, that is genius.”

“A man cannot wheedle nor overawe his Genius. It requires to be conciliated by nobler conduct than the world demands or can appreciate.”

“I hope to leave behind a few poems it will be hard to get rid of.”

“A translation in verse . . . seems to me something absurd, impossible.”

“For this reason poetry is something more philosophical and more worthy of serious attention than history.”