The words of my book nothing, the drift of it every thing.
The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual – namely to You.
The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.
The real war will never get in the books.
The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs: him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.
The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges or churches or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors… but always most in the common people.
The future is no more uncertain than the present.
The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.
The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters is simplicity.
Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?
Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle.
Rest not till you rivet and publish yourself of your own Personality.
