"Shut not your doors to me proud..." - Quote by Walt Whitman

“I exist as I am, that is enough.”

“Each of us inevitable; Each of us limitless-each of us with his or her right upon the earth.”

“All is procession; the universe is a procession with measured and beautiful motion.”

“Violence begins where knowledge ends.”

“We do not know a truth without knowing its cause.”

“Because a fact seems strange to you, you conclude that it is not one. ... All science, however, commences by being strange. Science is successive. It goes from one wonder to another. It mounts by a ladder. The science of to-day would seem extravagant to the science of a former time. Ptolemy would believe Newton mad.”

“If behind the erratic gunfire of the press the author felt that there was another kind of criticism, the opinion of people readingfor the love of reading, slowly and unprofessionally, and judging with great sympathy and yet with great severity, might this not improve the quality of his work? And if by our means books were to become stronger, richer, and more varied, that would be an end worth reaching.”

“Every book is good to read which sets the reader in a working mood.”

“Many a fervid man writes books as cold and flat as graveyard stones.”