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

I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journeywork of the stars, And the pismire is equally perfect, and a grain of sand, and the egg of the wren, And the tree toad is a chef-d'oeurve for the highest, And the running blackberry would adorn the parlors of heaven, And the narrowest hinge in my hand puts to scorn all machinery, And the cow crunching with depress'd head surpasses any statue, And a mouse is miracle enough to stagger sextillions of infidels!

The smallest sprout shows there is really no death. And if ever there was it led forward life, and does not wait at the end to arrest it.

I am an acme of things accomplished, and I an encloser of things to be.

An individual is as superb as a nation when he has the qualities which make a superb nation.

The work for giants...to serve well the guns!

Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.