"I agree, without proviso, with Ishmael, who comes to realize that 'attainable felicity' is not located 'in the intellect or the fancy; but in the wife, the heart, the bed, the table, the saddle, the fire-side, the country'—all tangible things, the first held close by the second, a doing and being, its laws and effects the poetry of life; the others—more prosaic but beautiful nonetheless—purchased stuff."
Jerry DeNuccio • The Smart Set