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

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

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

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

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

Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.

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.

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

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

When I give I give myself.

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

There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.

Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.

Nothing endures but personal qualities.

The future is no more uncertain than the present.

To have great poets, there must be great audiences.

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

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

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.

The real war will never get in the books.

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

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

The future is no more uncertain than the present.

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

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