O to be self-balanced for contingencies, to confront night, storms, hunger, ridicule, accidents, rebuffs, as the trees and animals do.

I and this mystery, here we stand.

I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.

After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.

Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.

I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game. It will take our people out-of-doors, fill them with oxygen, give them a larger physical stoicism. Tend to relieve us from being a nervous, dyspeptic set. Repair these losses, and be a blessing to us.

Have you not learned the most in your life from those with whom you disagreed - those who saw it differently from you?