"And there is no trade or employment..." - Quote by Walt Whitman

“You want to know a sure way to lose money? Buy what's popular and don't know what you are investing in.”

“Long and long has the grass been growing,Long and long has the rain been falling,Long has the globe been rolling round.”

“O Earth, that hast no voice, confide to me a voice!O harvest of my lands! O boundless summer growths!O lavish, brown, parturient earth! O infinite, teeming womb!A verse to seek, to see, to narrate thee.”

“The man who fights against his own country is never a hero.”

“Virtue alone is sweet society,It keeps the key to all heroic hearts,And opens you a welcome in them all.”

“There have been heroes for whom this world seemed expressly prepared, as if creation had at last succeeded; whose daily life was the stuff of which our dreams are made, and whose presence enhanced the beauty and ampleness of Nature herself.”

“I've tried to be totally present, so that when I'm finished with a piece of work, I'm finished. ... The work, once completed, does not need me. The work I'm working on needs my total concentration. The one that's finished doesn't belong to me anymore. It belongs to itself.”

“When a soldier complains of his hard life (or a labourer, etc.) try giving him nothing to do.”

“The job has its grandeurs, yes. There is the exultation of arriving safely after a storm, the joy of gliding down out of the darkness of night or tempest toward a sun-drenched Alicante or Santiago; there is the swelling sense of returning to repossess one's place in life, in the miraculous garden of earth, where are trees and women and, down by the harbor, friendly little bars. When he has throttled his engine and is banking into the airport, leaving the somber cloud masses behind, what pilot does not break into song?”