"Forever is composed of nows."

Poem 690

"Because I could not stop for Death, He kindly stopped for me."

Poem 479

"Two roads diverged in a yellow wood."

The Road Not Taken

"I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference."

The Road Not Taken

"Good fences make good neighbors."

Mending Wall

"Whose woods these are I think I know."

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

"I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep."

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

"A thing of beauty is a joy forever."

Endymion

"Beauty is truth, truth beauty."

Ode on a Grecian Urn

"To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield."

Ulysses

"Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all."

In Memoriam A.H.H.

"Theirs not to reason why, theirs but to do and die."

The Charge of the Light Brigade

"Water, water, everywhere, nor any drop to drink."

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

"If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?"

Ode to the West Wind

"Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!"

Ozymandias

"I wandered lonely as a cloud."

I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

"The world is too much with us; late and soon."

The World Is Too Much with Us

"A little learning is a dangerous thing."

An Essay on Criticism

"To err is human; to forgive, divine."

An Essay on Criticism

"Fools rush in where angels fear to tread."

An Essay on Criticism

"Whatever is, is right."

An Essay on Man

"No man is an island."

Devotions upon Emergent Occasions

"For whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee."

Devotions upon Emergent Occasions

"Gather ye rosebuds while ye may."

To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time

"I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul."

Invictus

"It matters not how strait the gate."

Invictus

"O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done."

O Captain! My Captain!

"I contain multitudes."

Song of Myself

"Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself."

Song of Myself

"I celebrate myself, and sing myself."

Song of Myself

"The only way to have a friend is to be one."

Essays: First Series

"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm."

Essays: First Series

"Hitch your wagon to a star."

Society and Solitude

"The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn."

Attributed Emerson collection

"Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth."

Walden

"The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it."

Walden

"Simplify, simplify."

Walden

"Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful."

Frankenstein

"Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change."

Frankenstein

"It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness."

Attributed sermon phrase

"The journey itself is my home."

Attributed haiku-era saying

"Even the longest day has its end."

Traditional saying

"It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done."

A Tale of Two Cities

"God bless us, every one!"

A Christmas Carol

"There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor."

A Christmas Carol

"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me."

Jane Eyre

"Reader, I married him."

Jane Eyre

"I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!"

Wuthering Heights

"Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same."

Wuthering Heights

"There is nothing new under the sun."

King James Version