One word is too often profaned For me to profane it, One feeling too falsely disdain'd For thee to disdain it. One hope too like dispair For prudence to smother, I can give not what men call love: But wilt thou accept not The worship the heart lifts above And heaven rejects not: The desire of the moth for the star, The devotion of something afar From the sphere of our sorrow?

Truth has always been found to promote the best interests of mankind.

A Christian, a Deist, a Turk, and a Jew, have equal rights: they are men and brethren.

Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness.

The young moon has fed Her exhausted horn With the sunset's fire.

Drive my dead thoughts over the universe Like withered leaves to quicken a new birth! And, by the incantation of this verse, Scatter, as from an unextinguished hearth Ashes and sparks, my words among mankind! Be through my lips to unawakened earth The trumpet of a prophecy! O, wind, If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?

When a man marries, dies, or turns Hindu, his best friends hear no more of him.