Behold! I do not give lectures on a little charity. When I give I give myself.
The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.
Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disp...
Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you.You must travel it by yourself.It is not far. It is within reach.Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know. Perhaps it is ev...
If you want me again look for me under your boot-soles.
A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands;How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is any morethan he.
It is native personality and that alone that endows a man to stand before presidents or generals or in any distinguished collection with aplomb -and not culture or any intellect whatever.
I exist as I am, that is enough,If no other in the world be aware I sit content,And if each and all be aware I sit content.One world is aware, and by the far the largest to me, and that is myself.
Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.
Your very flesh shall be a great poem...
Agonies are one of my changes of garments.
If any thing is sacred the human body is sacred.
Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.
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 do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person.
I act as the tongue of you,... tied in your mouth . . . . in mine it begins to be loosened.
I and this mystery, here we stand.
When I heard the learn’d astronomer; When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me; When I was shown the charts and the diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them; When I, sitting, he...
I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.
I celebrate myself, and sing myself,And what I assume you shall assume,For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.I loafe and invite my soul,I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of...