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

All things are moral; and in their boundless changes have an unceasing reference to spiritual nature.

To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.

Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book.

English history is aristocracy with the doors open. Who has courage and faculty, let him come in.

Oh, be my friend, and teach me to be thine!

The language of the street is always strong.