United States! the ages plead, — Present and Past in under-song, — Go put your creed into your deed, Nor speak with double tongue. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Go put your creed into your deed, Nor speak with double tongue.

Beware what you set your heart upon. For it surely shall be yours.

We cannot overstate our debt to the Past, but the moment has the supreme claim. The Past is for us; but the sole terms on which it can become ours are its subordination to the Present. Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor. We must not tamper with the organic motion of the soul.

Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.