I do not believe anything comes by chance. I regard the present as the necessary child of a necessary past.
From Robert Green Ingersoll
It always has been and forever will be impossible for slavery or any kind or form of injustice to produce a great poet.
Walt Whitman defended the sacredness of love, the purity of passion - the passion that builds every home and fills the world with art and song.
No writer must be measured by a word or paragraph. He is to be measured by his work - by the tendency, not of one line, but by the tendency of all.
The great man who gives a true transcript of his mind fascinates and instructs. Most writers suppress individuality. They wish to please the public.
In every age in which books have been produced, the governing class, the respectable, have been opposed to the works of real genius.
If the guardians of society, the protectors of 'young persons,' could have had their way, we should have known nothing of Byron or Shelley. The voices that thrill the world would now be silent.
The great poets have sympathized with the people. They have uttered in all ages the human cry. Unbought by gold, unawed by power, they have lifted high the torch that illuminates the world.
Many Americans do not understand that the officers of the government are simply the servants of the people.
There is a quiet about the life of a farmer, and the hope of a serene old age, that no other business or profession can promise.
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