Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.

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

Now understand me well. It is provided in the essence of things that from any fruition of success, no matter what, shall come forth something to make a greater struggle necessary.

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

Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me.

Why should I wish to see God better than this day? I see something of God each hour of the twenty-four, and each moment then, In the faces of men and women I see God, and in my own face in the glass; I find letters from God dropped in the street, and every one is signed by God's name, And I leave them where they are, for I know that others will punctually come forever and ever.

Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people.