Usually you don't 'visually' center it the way you explained it, but you use the preferred, default usage PS showed you. That said, it is a personal preference.
- If you have CAPITALS they don't center visually
- HTML headings that are inline don't center visually
First example
##First example OnOn the wordpress homepage for example, they have these quotes:
They don't make the blue hyperlinks visually centered. That's because no browser does that, natively.
another example
##another example another example from the theme page: