"The greatest city is that which has the greatest men and women."

"I say we had best look our times and lands searchingly in the face, like a physician diagnosing some deep disease. Never was there, perhaps, more hollowness at heart than at present, and here in the U…"

"The public is a thick-skinned beast, and you have to club it soundly to get any attention at all."

"I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced an…"

"The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem."