I think I will do nothing for a long time but listen, And accrue what I hear into myself...and let sound contribute toward me.

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.

Only themselves understand themselves and the like of themselves, As souls only understand souls.

I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

The ecstasy is so short but the forgetting is so long.

Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?

There is no place like it, no place with an atom of its glory, pride, and exultancy. It lays its hand upon a man's bowels; he grows drunk with ecstasy; he grows young and full of glory, he feels that he can never die.