"I find no sweeter fat than sticks..." - Quote by Walt Whitman

“By writing at the instant, the very heartbeat of life is caught.”

“An electric chain seems to vibrate, as it were, between our brain and him or her preserved there [in a Daguerreotype] so well by the limner's cunning. Time, space, both are annihilated, and we identify the semblance with the reality.”

“To drive free, to love free, to court destruction with taunts, to feed the remainder of life with one hour of fullness and freedom - one brief hour of madness and joy.”

“Books should stand on their own feet ... If they need shoring up by a preface here, an introduction there, they have no more right to exist than a table that needs a wad of paper under one leg in order to stand steady.”

“I am a true laborer: I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man's happiness, glad of other men's good, content with my harm.”

“I think that if all kids aspire to reach a point where they could feed themselves and a few of their friends, this would be good for the world surely.”

“If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.”

“I have loved another with all my heart, and for me that has always been enough.”

“The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.”