More From Walt Whitman
- "I may be as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best."
- "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."
- "The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people."
More In Great
- "I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within."― Douglas MacArthur
- "Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody."― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- "Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?"― Leonardo da Vinci