My giant goes with me wherever I go.

The aristocrat is the democrat ripe, and gone to seed.

To aim to convert a man by miracles is a profanation of the soul.

We live in a new and exceptional age. America is another word for Opportunity. Our whole history appears like a last effort of the Divine Providence in behalf of the human race; and a literal, slavish following of precedents, as by a justice of the peace, is not for those who at this hour lead the AMERICAN CIVILIZATION.

Some will always be above others. Destroy the inequality today, and it will appear again tomorrow.

Who leaves the pine-tree, leaves his friend, Unnerves his strength, invites his end.

The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly.