Longevity/history

Famous quotes containing the words longevity and/or history:

    Every thing teaches transition, transference, metamorphosis: therein is human power, in transference, not in creation; & therein is human destiny, not in longevity but in removal. We dive & reappear in new places.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
    Henry James (1843–1916)