whitman Quotes

“Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.”

“Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.”

“Produce great men, the rest follows.”

“I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.”

“The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.”

“I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.”

“Freedom - to walk free and own no superior.”

“I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.”

“I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.”

“I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.”