Great country, diminutive minds. America is formless, has no terrible and no beautiful condensation.

Emancipation is the demand of civilization. That is a principle; everything else is an intrigue.

Throughout the ages there have always been those who have been willing to go beyond the norms and reach for that unknown and distant star.

The hero is he who is immovably centered.

[D]ivine Providence... keeps the universe open in every direction to the soul.

Nature never hurries: atom by atom, little by little, she achieves her work. The lesson one learns from yachting or planting is the manners of Nature; patience with the delays of wind and sun, delays of the seasons, bad weather, excess or lack of water.

Every man is the inlet and may become the outlet of all there is in God.