To myself I am only a child playing on the beach while vast oceans of truth...
To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction...
If I have done the public any service it is due to my patient thought.
I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore and diverting myself now and then...
Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.
Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Equality rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences wrongly understood as it has been so tragically in our time it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.
