All truths wait in all things,/They neither hasten their own delivery nor resist it

An individual is as superb as a nation when he has the qualities which make a superb nation.

Praised be the fathomless universe, for life and joy, and for objects and knowledge curious.

And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.

We were together. I forget the rest.

Battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

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!