Oh, one world at a time!

When I meet a government which says to me, "Your money or your life," why should I be in haste to give it my money?

Good religious men, with the love of men in their hearts, and the means to pay their toll in their pockets.

Every man is entitled to come to Cattle-Show, even a transcendentalist; and for my part I am more interested in the men than in the cattle.

Poetry is the only life got, the only work done, the only pure product and free labor of man, performed only when he has put all the world under his feet, and conquered the last of his foes.

There is in my nature, methinks, a singular yearning toward all wildness.

This life we live is a strange dream, and I don't believe at all any account men give of it.