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 have sometimes thought that the laws ought not to punish those actions of evil which are committed when the senses are steeped in intoxication.

I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.

Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people.

Re-examine all you have been told in school or church or in any book, and dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem.

Here is not merely a nation but a teeming nation of nations.

Do anything, but let it produce joy.