The well taught philosophic mind To all compassion gives; Casts round the world an equal eye, And feels for all that lives.

We may think all religions beneficial, and believe of one alone that it is true.

Child of mortality, whence comest thou? Why is thy countenance sad, and why are thine eyes red with weeping?

Let us confess a truth, humiliating to human pride; - a very small part only of the opinions of the coolest philosopher are the result of fair reasoning; the rest are formed by his education, his temperament, by the age in which he lives, by trains of thought directed to a particular track through some accidental association - in short, by prejudice.

Of her scorn the maid repented, And the shepherd - of his love.

many things I knew, I have forgotten; many things I thought I knew, I find I know nothing about; some things I know, I have found not worth knowing; and some things I would give - O what would one not give to know? are beyond the reach of human ken.

Forgotten rimes, and college themes, Worm-eaten plans, and embryo schemes; A mass of heterogeneous matter. A chaos dark, nor land nor water.