You road I enter upon and look around, I believe you are not all that is here, I believe much unseen is also here

You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; a certain free-margin , or even vagueness - ignorance, credulity - helps your enjoyment of these things.

Charity and personal force are the only investments worth anything.

Americans should know the universe itself as a road, as many roads, as roads for traveling souls.

I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.

Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself.

Did you, too, O friend, suppose democracy was only for elections, for politics, and for a party name? I say democracy is only of use there that it may pass on and come to its flower and fruit in manners, in the highest forms of interaction between people, and their beliefs - in religion, literature, colleges and schools- democracy in all public and private life.