Ah, Bartleby! Ah, humanity!

War should be carried on like a monsoon; one changeless determination of every particle towards the one unalterable aim.

See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.

It does seem to me, that herein we see the rare virtue of a strong individual vitality, and the rare virtue of thick walls, and the rare virtue of interior spaciousness. Oh, man! admire and model thyself after the whale! Do thou, too, remain warm among ice. Do thou, too, live in this world without being of it. Be cool at the equator; keep thy blood fluid at the Pole. Like the great dome of St. Peter's, and like the great whale, retain, O man! in all seasons a temperature of thine own.

The eyes are the gateway to the soul.

The only ugliness is that of the heart, seen through the face. And though beauty be obvious, the only loveliness is invisible.

If Shakespeare has not been equalled, he is sure to be surpassed, and surpassed by an American born now or yet to be born.