"I am not an advocate for a long life, but for a full one."

"Democracy, with all its threatening evils, supplies a training-school. It is life's gymnasium, not of good only, but of all."

"Filthy to others, to me they are not filthy, but illustrious; while critics consider those subjects from the point of view of persons standing on the lowest animal and infidelistic platform. Which, th…"

"I am the poet of the body and I am the poet of the soul."

"I believe in you, my soul, the other I am must not abase itself to you, And you must not be abased to the other."