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All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor.

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The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.

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Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

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And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.

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The beautiful uncut hair of graves.

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O lands! O all so dear to me - what you are, I become part of that, whatever it is.

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There is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheeled universe.

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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.

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To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.

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O the joy of the strong-brawn'd fighter, towering in the arena in perfect condition, conscious of power, thirsting to meet his opponent.

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If any thing is sacred, the human body is sacred.

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I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

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I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.

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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.

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Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination?

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He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.

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I celebrate myself, and what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. I loafe and invite my soul, I lean and loafe at my ease... observing a spear of summer grass.

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Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.

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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.

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Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.

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