I take this evanescence and lubricity of all objects, which lets them slip through our fingers then when we clutch hardest, to be the most unhandsome part of our condition.
Ralph Waldo EmersonAll that Adam had, all that Caesar could, you have and can do.... Build, therefore, your own world.
Ralph Waldo EmersonAll things are moral. That soul, which within us is a sentiment, outside of us is a law. We feel its inspiration; out there in history we can see its fatal strength.
Ralph Waldo Emerson