To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.

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

Resist much, obey little.

Are you the new person drawn toward me? To begin with, take warning, I am surely far different from what you suppose.

Clear and sweet is my soul, clear and sweet is all that is not my soul.

That's beautiful: the hurrah game! well — it's our game: that's the chief fact in connection with it: America's game: has the snap, go fling, of the American atmosphere — belongs as much to our institutions, fits into them as significantly, as our constitutions, laws: is just as important in the sum total of our historic life.

O me! O life!... of the questions of these recurring; of the endless trains of the faithless... of cities filled with the foolish; what good amid these, O me, O life?