All Greatness Of Character Is Dependent On

Where Are Your Combing Seas, Your Blue Water, Your Rollers, Your Breakers, Your Whales, Or Your Waterspouts, And Your Endless Motion, In This Bit Of A Forest, Child?

Systems Are To Be Appreciated By Their General Effects, And Not By Particular Exceptions.

We Live In A World Of Transgressions And Selfishness, And No Pictures That Represent Us Otherwise Can Be True; Though Happily For Human Nature, Gleamings Of That Pure Spirit In Whose Likeness Man Has Been Fashioned, Are To Be Seen, Relieving Its Deformities, And Mitigating, If Not Excusing Its Crimes.

I Do Not Pretend That All That White Men Do Is Properly Christianized.

The American Doctrinaire Is The Converse Of The American Demagogue, And, In This Way, Is Scarcely Less Injurious To The Public. The First Deals In Poetry, The Last In Cant. He Is As Much A Visionary On One Side, As The Extreme Theoretical Democrat Is A Visionary On The Other.