I am larger, better than I thought; I did not know I held so much goodness.

The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual.

The city sleeps and the country sleeps, the living sleep for their time, the dead sleep for their time, the old husband sleeps by his wife and the young husband sleeps by his wife; and these tend inward to me, and I tend outward to them, and such as it is to be of these more or less I am, and of these one and all I weave the song of myself.

I mind how once we lay such a transparent summer morning, How you settled your head athwart my hips and gently turn'd over upon me, And parted the shirt from my bosom-bone, and plunged your tongue to my bare-stript heart, And reach'd till you felt my beard, and reach'd till you held my feet.

When the materials are all prepared and ready, the architects shall appear.

I will not descend among professors and capitalists.

The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.