Produce great men, the rest follows.
Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.
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.
There is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheeled universe.
He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.
The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.
To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.
I accept reality and dare not question it.
Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people.
I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.
And your very flesh shall be a great poem.
The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.
To me, every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle.
The future is no more uncertain than the present.
I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
To have great poets, there must be great audiences.
Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.
I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep.
Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.
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.
If any thing is sacred, the human body is sacred.
Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.
I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.
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.