True friends are two people who are comfortable sharing silence together.

Quotation confesses inferiority.

To Be is to live with God.

When its errands are noble and adequate, a steamboat bridging the Atlantic between Old and New England, and arriving at its ports with the punctuality of a planet, is a step of man into harmony with nature.

I must be myself. I cannot break myself any longer for you, or you. If you can love me for what I am, we shall be the happier. If you cannot, I will still seek to seserve that you should.

Out from the heart of Nature rolled The burdens of the Bible old.

All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients.