Battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

Perhaps the efforts of the true poets, founders, religions, literatures, all ages, have been, and ever will be, our time and times to come, essentially the same - to bring people back from their present strayings and sickly abstractions, to the costless, average, divine, original concrete.

Praised be the fathomless universe, for life and joy, and for objects and knowledge curious.

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.

That the hands of the sisters Death and Night incessantly softly wash again and ever again, this soiled world.

To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.

What beauty there is in words; what a lurking curious charm in the sound some words.