Of the human form especially it is so great it must never be made ridiculous. . . Exaggerations will be revenged in human physiology. - Walt Whitman

Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary-makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys, affections, tastes, of long generations of humanity, and has its bases broad and low, close to the ground.

Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, when I give I give myself.

All truths wait in all things,
They neither hasten their own delivery nor resist it,
They do not need the obstetric forceps of the surgeon,
The insignificant is as big to me as any,
(What is less or more than a touch)...