And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.
The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual.
I know nothing grander, better exercise, better digestion, more positive proof of the past, the triumphant result of faith in human kind, than a well-contested American national election.
Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.
I see great things in baseball. It’s our game – the American game.
Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.
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 art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
Nothing endures but personal qualities.
O public road, I say back I am not afraid to leave you, yet I love you, you express me better than I can express myself.
The eager and often inconsiderate appeals of reformers and revolutionists are indispensable to counterbalance the inertia and fossilism marking so large a part of human institutions.
If any thing is sacred, the human body is sacred.
Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle.
I find no sweeter fat than sticks to my own bones.
The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.
All truths wait in all things.
Pointing to another world will never stop vice among us; shedding light over this world can alone help us.
O to speed where there is space enough and air enough at last!
What do you suppose will satisfy the soul, except to walk free and own no superior?