All History Is Biography.

Evermore In The World Is This Marvelous Balance Of Beauty And Disgust, Magnificence And Rats.

All Reform Aims, In Some One Particular, To Let The Soul Have Its Way Through Us; In Other Words, To Engage Us To Obey.

Yet America Is A Poem In Our Eyes; Its Ample Geography Dazzles The Imagination, And It Will Not Wait Long For Metres.

O Lord! Unhappy Is The Man Whom Man Can Make Unhappy.

Men Admire The Man Who Can Organize Their Wishes And Thoughts In Stone And Wood And Steel And Brass.