I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.

After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.

Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.

I celebrate myself, and sing myself.

We convince by our presence.

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.

Nothing endures but personal qualities.

The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.

Freedom - to walk free and own no superior.

When I give I give myself.

And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death.

Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.

The future is no more uncertain than the present.

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

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

To have great poets, there must be great audiences.

Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.

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.

A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.

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

Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.

I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.

A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.

Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.

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?

I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.

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