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

In the confusion we stay with each other, happy to be together, speaking without uttering a single word.

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

Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed.

Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.

Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.

Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?

And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.

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

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

I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?

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

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.

There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their roughness and spirit of defiance.

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