Men seek to be great; they would have offices, wealth, power, and fame. They think that to be great is to possess one side of nature,--the sweet, without the other side,--the bitter.

No one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourself.

Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.

Let the words be gazetted and ridiculous henceforward.

Yet America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.

God will not make himself manifest to cowards

If you cannot be free be as free as you can.