"I celebrate myself, and sing myself," — Walter Whitman

A man should have the fine point of his soul taken off to become fit for this world

Source: Letters of John Keats (1817-1820)

I count life just a stuff to try the soul's strength on

Source: In a Balcony (1855)

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance

Source: Pride and Prejudice (1813)

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul

Source: The Spectator, no. 215 (1711)

All our discontents about what we want appeared to me to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.

Source: The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting:

Source: The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Intimations of Immortality

Walter Whitman Quote