“Be assured, however, that you will not pass from my mind.”

Promising that separation will not erase affection or remembrance · Speech, New York, 20 April 1868

• Friendship
• Memory

“To have established such relations with readers of my books is a great happiness to me, and one that I hope never to forfeit by being otherwise than manfully and truly in earnest in my vocation.”

Valuing readers' trust as something that must be earned through sincerity · Letter to R. M. Ross, 19 February 1866

• Art
• Friendship

“I believe that she and every beautiful object in external nature, claims some sympathy in the breast of the poorest man who breaks his scanty loaf of daily bread.”

Arguing that beauty and nature speak across distinctions of wealth · Speech, Boston, February 1842

• Beauty
• Nature