What you do thunders above your head so loudly, I cannot hear the words you speak.

The poorest experience is rich enough for all the purposes of expressing thought

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

We may be partial, but Fate is not.

The foundations of a person are not in matter but in spirit.

All infractions of love and equity in our social relations are speedily punished-by fear...be honest with a man and you have no fear. Try to deceive and the relationship deteriorates.

Yet America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.