I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.

I find letters from God dropt in the street, and every one is sign'd by God's name.

Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle.

The best writing has no lace on its sleeves.

What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life.

Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.

In the faces of men and women, I see God.