To me, every hour of the light and dark is a miracle, every inch of space is a miracle, every square yard of the surface of the earth is spread with the same, every cubic foot of the interior swarms with the same; every spear of grass-the frames, limbs, organs, of men and women, and all that concerns them, all these to me are unspeakably perfect miracles.

There's no doubt that I've deserved my enemies, but I don't think I've deserved my friends.

To have great poets, there must be great audiences.

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.

The whole purpose of the universe is unerringly aimed at one thing - you.

The gift is to the giver, and comes back most to him - it cannot fail

I pass death with the dying and birth with the new-wash'd babe, and am not contained between my hat and my boots.