He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.

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

A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.

Everybody is writing, writing, writing - worst of all, writing poetry. It'd be better if the whole tribe of the scribblers - every damned one of us - were sent off somewhere with tool chests to do some honest work.

All truths wait in all things, They neither hasten their own delivery nor resist it, They do not need the obstetric forceps of the surgeon, The insignificant is as big to me as any, (What is less or more than a touch).

After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.

I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.