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.

The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.

Give me juicy autumnal fruit, ripe and red from the orchard.

TO the States or any one of them, or any city of the States, Resist much, obey little, Once unquestioning obedience, once fully enslaved, Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth, ever after-ward resumes its liberty.

There is no God any more divine than Yourself.

What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life.

I will not descend among professors and capitalists.