I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person.

O public road, I say back I am not afraid to leave you, yet I love you, you express me better than I can express myself.

And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.

Now understand me well. It is provided in the essence of things that from any fruition of success, no matter what, shall come forth something to make a greater struggle necessary.

The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people.

Will you seek afar off? You surely come back at last, In things best known to you, finding the best, or as good as the best, In folks nearest to you finding the sweetest, strongest, lovingest; Happiness, knowledge, not in another place, but this place-not for another hour, but this hour.

The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.