There is no God any more divine than Yourself.

In nothing is there more evolution than the American mind.

The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.

I am for those who believe in loose delights, I share the midnight orgies of young men, I dance with the dancers and drink with the drinkers.

Lo, the most excellent sun so calm and haughty, The violet and purple morn with just-felt breezes, The gentle soft-born measureless light, The miracle spreading bathing all, the fulfill'd noon, The coming eve delicious, the welcome night and the stars, Over my cities shining all, enveloping man and land.

We arrange our lives-even the best and boldest men and women that exist, just as much as the most limited-with reference to what society conventionally rules and makes right.

It is only the novice in political economy who thinks it is the duty of government to make its citizens happy - government has no such office.