Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.

Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one

We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones. Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.

The youth may build or plant or sail, only let him not be hindered from doing that which he tells me he would like to do. It is by a mathematical point only that we are wise, as the sailor or the fugitive slave keeps the polestar in his eye; but that is sufficient guidance for all our life. We may not arrive at our port within a calculable period, but we would preserve the true course.

May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love!

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.