Underneath the inharmonious and trivial particulars, is a musical perfection, the Ideal journeying always with us, the heaven without rent or seam.

The shoemaker makes a good shoe because he makes nothing else.

There is a capacity of virtue in us, and there is a capacity of vice to make your blood creep.

Man's life is a progress, not a station.

I am ready to die out of nature, and be born again into this new yet unapproachable America I have found in the West.

Some men's words I remember so well that I must often use them to express my thought. Yes, because I perceive that we have heard the same truth, but they have heard it better.

Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today. Let us treat men and women well; treat them as if they were real; perhaps they are.