Whatever satisfies the soul is truth

Peace is always beautiful, The myth of heaven indicates peace and night

He (President Abraham Lincoln) has a face like a hoosier Michael Angelo, so awful ugly it becomes beautiful, with its strange mouth, its deep-cut, criss-cross lines, and its doughnut complexion

The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves

The poet judges not as a judge judges but as the sun falling around a helpless thing

Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it's done right

Wisdom is not finally tested in the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof

In the faces of men and women I see God

I may be as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best

I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends