I have perceiv’d that to be with those I like is enough, To stop in company with the rest at evening is enough, To be surrounded by beautiful, curious, breathing, laughing flesh is enough, To pass among them, or touch any one, or rest my arm ever so lightly round his or her neck for a moment—what is this, then? I do not ask any more delight—I swim in it, as in a sea.

Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?

I know I am deathless. No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before. I laugh at what you call dissolution, and I know the amplitude of time.

In the faces of men and women, I see God.

From this hour I ordain myself loos'd of limits and imaginary lines.

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.

Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man. Not in him but off from him things are grotesque or eccentric or fail of their sanity.