My spirit has pass'd in compassion and determination around the whole earth. I have look'd for equals and lovers an found them ready for me in all lands, I think some divine rapport has equalized me with them

People who serve you without love get even behind your back.

I speak the password primeval; I give the sign of democracy.

The smallest sprout shows there is really no death. And if ever there was it led forward life, and does not wait at the end to arrest it.

A man is a great thing upon the earth and through eternity; but every jot of the greatness of man is unfolded out of woman.

Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.

And if the body were not the soul, what is the soul?