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

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

And if the body were not the soul, what is the soul?

Now I see that there is no such thing as love unreturn'd. The pay is certain, one way or another.

Our leading men are not of much account and never have been, but the average of the people is immense, beyond all history. Sometimes I think in all departments, literature and art included, that will be the way our superiority will exhibit itself. We will not have great individuals or great leaders, but a great average bulk, unprecedentedly great.

Here the frailest leaves of me and yet my strongest lasting, Here I shade and hide my thoughts, I myself do not expose them, And yet they expose me more than all my other poems

And I or you pocketless of a dime, may purchase the pick of the earth.