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

I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person.

O Captain! My Captain! our fearful trip is done.

Re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem, and have the richest fluency, not only in its words, but in the silent lines of its lips and face, and between the lashes of your eyes, and in every motion and joint of your body.

Man is about the same, in the main, whether with despotism, or whether with freedom.

Was it doubted that those who corrupt their own bodies conceal themselves?

To me the sea is a continual miracle; The fishes that swim - the rocks - the motion of the waves - the ships, with men in them, what stranger miracles are there?