There never was any party, faction, sect, or cabal whatsoever, in which the most ignorant were not the most violent; for a bee is not a busier animal than a blockhead.

No, make me mistress to the man I love; If there be yet another name more free More fond than mistress, make me that to thee!

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.

I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

How do we know that we have a right to kill creatures that we are so little above, as dogs, for our curiosity or even for some use to us?

And die of nothing but a rage to live.

Speed the soft intercourse from soul to soul, And waft a sigh from Indus to the Pole.