“But I am still far from them, and my sense does not speak to their sense. To men I am something between a fool and a corpse.”

“I know my fate. One day my name will be associated with the memory of something tremendous — a crisis without equal on earth, the most profound collision of conscience, a decision that was conjured up against everything that had been believed, demanded, hallowed so far. I am no man, I am dynamite.”

“I consist of body and soul - in the worlds of a child. And why shouldn't we speak like children? But the enlightened, the knowledgealbe would say: I am body through and through, nothing more; and the soul is just a word for something on the body.”

“Every select man strives instinctively for a citadel and a privacy, where he is FREE from the crowd, the many, the majority-- where he may forget "men who are the rule," as their exception;-- exclusive only of the case in which he is pushed straight to such men by a still stronger instinct, as a discerner in the great and exceptional sense.”

“I am no man, I am dynamite.”

“I am one thing, my writings are another.”

“Sharp and mild, dull and keen,well known and strange, dirty and clean,where both the fool and wise are seen:All this am I, have ever been, -in me dove, snake and swine convene!”