Charity and personal force are the only investments worth anything.

Are you the new person drawn toward me? To begin with, take warning, I am surely far different from what you suppose.

What a devil art thou, Poverty! How many desires - how many aspirations after goodness and truth - how many noble thoughts, loving wishes toward our fellows, beautiful imaginings thou hast crushed under thy heel, without remorse or pause!

All truths wait in all things, They neither hasten their own delivery nor resist it, They do not need the obstetric forceps of the surgeon, The insignificant is as big to me as any, (What is less or more than a touch).

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.

Americans should know the universe itself as a road, as many roads, as roads for traveling souls.

Dazzling and tremendous how quick the sun-rise would kill me, if I could not now and always send sun-rise out of me.