Every hour of every day is an unspeakably perfect miracle.

Here is not merely a nation but a teeming nation of nations.

The shallow, as intimated, consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise see in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.

More and more too, the old name absorbs into me. Mannahatta, 'the place encircled by many swift tides and sparkling waters.' How fit a name for America's great democratic island city! The word itself, how beautiful! how aboriginal! how it seems to rise with tall spires, glistening in sunshine, with such New World atmosphere, vista and action!

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

O to speed where there is space enough and air enough at last!

There's no doubt that I've deserved my enemies, but I don't think I've deserved my friends.