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"In many faces I see passing through the crowded streets there seems a veiled beauty, an angel quickening me with purer life as I go by them in anxious haste.

Do we not see the hidden worth, glory, and beauty of others as our own becomes revealed to us?
Would the Son of God have been needed to ransom man if he were not of incomparable value ?" One of the dreams that at this time occupied Isaac's mind was that of undertaking a pilgrimage to Rome.

He wrote to Henry Thoreau, proposing that they should go in company, and felt regret when his invitation was not accepted.

His notion was to "work, beg, and travel on foot, so far as land goes, to Rome.