"A candid spirit is mightier than the most persistent dogmatism."
"Our favorites are few; since only what rises from the heart reaches it, being caught and carried on the tongues of men wheresoever love and letters journey."
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Source: Amos Bronson Alcott (1868). “Tablets”
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