I exist as I am, that is enough, If no other in the world be aware, I sit content, And if each and all be aware, I sit content.

Day by day and night by night we were together - all else has long been forgotten by me.

Keep your face always toward the sunshine everything could be worse but isn't and so we are justified in being grateful - and shadows everything could be better but isn't and so it is easy to be bitter 'unless you decide to look on the bright side will fall behind you.

All music is what awakes from you when you are reminded by the instruments. It is not the violins and the cornets-it is not the oboe nor the beating drums, nor the score of the baritone singer singing his sweet romanza-nor that of the women's chorus; it is nearer and farther than they.

Sure as the most certain sure, plumb in the uprights, well entretied, braced in the beams, Stout as a horse, affectionate, haughty, electrical, I and this mystery here we stand.

Camden was originally an accident, but I shall never be sorry I was left over in Camden. It has brought me blessed returns.

A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.