I will leave all and come and make the hymns of you, None has understood you, but I understand you, None has done justice to you, you have not done j… - Walt Whitman

Aquel que camina una sola legua sin amor, camina amortajado hacia su propio funeral.

Do you know much about Aaron Burr? There's a man, now, who is only damned and damned again in history and yet who had his parts. I have always designed writing something about him to show I did not stand in the jam of his vilifiers. I had a piece on him which should have gone into this book. You don't know (I guess I never told you) that when I was a lad, working in a lawyer's office, it fell to me to go over the river now and then with messages for Burr. Burr was very gentle — persuasive. He had a way of giving me a bit of fruit on these visits — an apple or a pear. I can see him clearly, still — his stateliness, gray hair, courtesy, consideration.

In all people I see myself, none more and not one barley-corn less,
And the good or bad I say of myself I say of them.