Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself.
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.
A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.
If you done it, it ain't bragging.
Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.
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.
I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.
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.
The real war will never get in the books.
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.
The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.
The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual.
The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.
There is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheeled universe.