The city sleeps and the country sleeps, the living sleep for their time, the dead sleep for their time, the old husband sleeps by his wife and the young husband sleeps by his wife; and these tend inward to me, and I tend outward to them, and such as it is to be of these more or less I am, and of these one and all I weave the song of myself.

Our leading men are not of much account and never have been, but the average of the people is immense, beyond all history. Sometimes I think in all departments, literature and art included, that will be the way our superiority will exhibit itself. We will not have great individuals or great leaders, but a great average bulk, unprecedentedly great.

NOT I - NOT ANYONE else, can travel that road for you, You must travel it for yourself.

Wisdom is not finally tested by the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof.

I dance with the dancers.

The most affluent man is he that confronts all the shows he sees by equivalents out of the stronger wealth of himself.

I have heard what the talkers were talking, the talk of the beginning and the end, But I do not talk of the beginning or the end.