"...the rights of them the others are down upon, Of the deform'd, trivial, flat, foolish, despised, Fog in the air, be…"

"In our sun-down perambulations, of late, through the outer parts of Brooklyn, we have observed several parties of you…"

"The paths to the house I seek to make, But leave to those to come the house itself."

"It is a beautiful truth that all men contain something of the artist in them. And perhaps it is the case that the gre…"

"I find I'm a good deal more of a socialist than I thought I was: maybe not technically, politically, so, but intrinsi…"

"This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, …"

"Now obey thy cherished secret wish, Embrace thy friends—leave all in order; To port and hawser's tie no more returnin…"

"Society waits unformed and is between things ended and things begun."

"Whitman is a "bad influence"; that is, he cannot be imitated."

"Talk not so much, then, young artist, of the great old masters, who but painted and chisell'd. Study not only their p…"