“We convince by our presence.”
Inspirational
“Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.”
CoolAll Quotes by Walt Whitman
“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.”
Business“The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.”
Art“Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.”
Cool“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.”
Best“Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.”
Good“Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.”
Best“The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.”
Beauty“I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.”
Nature“I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.”
Best“A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.”
Nature“I may be as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.”
Best“I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.”
Funny“I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.”
Great“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 disputed passage with you?”
Great“And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.”
Sympathy“The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.”
Great“I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep.”
Time“Freedom - to walk free and own no superior.”
Freedom“I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.”
Friendship