In nothing is there more evolution than the American mind.

I am large, I contain multitudes

Freedom - to walk free and own no superior.

Love-buds, put before you and within you, whoever you are, Buds to be unfolded on the old terms; If you bring the warmth of the sun to them, they will open, and bring form, color, perfume, to you; If you become the aliment and the wet, they will become flowers, fruits, tall blanches and trees.

A man is a great thing upon the earth and through eternity; but every jot of the greatness of man is unfolded out of woman.

I see the President almost every day. I see very plainly Abraham Lincoln's dark brown face with its deep-cut lines, the eyes always to me with a deep latent sadness in the expression. None of the artists or pictures has caught the deep, though subtle and indirect expression of this man's face. There is something else there. One of the great portrait painters of two or three centuries ago is needed.

I am an acme of things accomplished, and I an encloser of things to be.