The big fellows are always the generous fellows: they recognize each other wherever they are. It’s the generosity that makes the big fellow. It will do for the little crowd to have all the bickerings, the mean jealousies, the quarrelling ambitions, the mean policies.

-Walt Whitman

 

          Horace Traubel, With Walt Whitman in Camden, 9 vols (1906-1996) 1: 283.