These are the days that must happen to you.

Books are to be called for and supplied on the assumption that the process of reading is not a half-sleep, but in the highest sense an exercise, a gymnastic struggle; that the reader is to do something for himself.

Logic and sermons never convince, The damp of the night drives deeper into my soul.

Unscrew the locks from the doors ! Unscrew the doors themselves from their jambs !

To have great poets, there must be great audiences.

The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people.

I speak the password primeval; I give the sign of democracy.