“Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.”

“The cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition should be hushed. A sentiment more unworthy of a free country could hardly be propagated.”

“When love has fused and mingled two beings in a sacred and angelic unity, the secret of life has been discovered so far as they are concerned; they are no longer anything more than the two boundaries of the same destiny; they are no longer anything but the two wings of the same spirit. Love, soar.”

“In anything at all, perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness.”

“I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don't.”

“American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.”