"I remember I saw only that man who passionately clung to me, Again we wander, we love, we separate again, Again he holds me by the hand, I must not go, I see him close beside me with silent lips sad a…"

"Our leading men are not of much account and never have been, but the average of the people is immense, beyond all history."

"Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.)"

"I exist as I am, that is enough, If no other in the world be aware I sit content, And if each and all be aware I sit content."

"I say we had best look our times and lands searchingly in the face, like a physician diagnosing some deep disease. Never was there, perhaps, more hollowness at heart than at present, and here in the U…"