{29} It is to the development, identification, and general prevalence of that fervid comradeship, (the adhesive love, at least rivaling the amative love hitherto possessing imaginative literature, if not going beyond it,) that I look for the counterbalance and offset of our materialistic and vulgar American democracy, and for the spiritualization thereof.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

As to the rest, my pleasure in life is not great.
— from Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt — Volume 1 by Franz Liszt

And again, in “Democratic Vistas,” “It is to the development, 76 identification, and general prevalence of that fervid comradeship (the adhesive love at least rivaling the amative love hitherto possessing imaginative literature, if not going beyond it), that I look for the counterbalance and offset of materialistic and vulgar American Democracy, and for the spiritualisation thereof.
— from The Intermediate Sex: A Study of Some Transitional Types of Men and Women by Edward Carpenter