Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will... - Walt Whitman

"The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity."

"We convince by our presence."

"Sometimes with one I love, I fill myself with rage, for fear I effuse unreturn'd love; But now I think there is no unreturn'd love—the pay is certain, one way or another; (I loved a certain person ardently, and my love was not return'd; Yet out of that, I have written these songs.)"

"Pointing to another world will never stop vice among us; shedding light over this world can alone help us."

"I have learned that to be with those I like is enough."