 The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual. |
| I find no sweeter fat than sticks to my own bones. |
| If any thing is sacred, the human body is sacred. |
| I accept reality and dare not question it. |
| Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all. |
| Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely. |
| I have learned that to be with those I like is enough. |
| Nothing can happen more beautiful than death. |
| And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud. |
| The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem. |
| If you done it, it ain't bragging. |
| I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars. |
| Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you? |
| There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius. |
| All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor. |
| I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends. |
| I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least. |
| Whatever satisfies the soul is truth. |
| Whoever degrades another degrades me, And whatever is done or said returns at last to me. |
| The future is no more uncertain than the present. |
