If something takes too long, something happens to you. You become all and only the thing you want and nothing else, for you have paid too much for it, too much in wanting and too much in waiting and too much in getting.

If you are an idealist, it does not matter what you do or what goes on around you because it isn't real anyway.

But for the present I would lie there and know I didn't have to get up, and feel the holy emptiness and blessed fatigue of a saint after the dark night of the soul. For God and Nothing have a lot in common. You look either one of Them straight in the eye for a second and the immediate effect on the human constitution is the same.

What if angry vectors veer Round your sleeping head, and form. There's never need to fear Violence of the poor world's abstract storm.

If you look at a thing, the very fact of your looking changes it...if you think about yourself, that very fact changes you.

The best luck always happens to people who don't need it.

More and more Emerson recedes grandly into history, as the future he predicted becomes a past.