Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.

If a person's religious ideas correspond not with your own, love him nevertheless

It is only by hearsay (by word of mouth passed down from generation to generation) that whole peoples adore the God of their fathers and of their priests: authority, confidence, submission and custom with them take the place of conviction or of proofs: they prostrate themselves and pray, because their fathers taught them to prostrate themselves and pray: but why did their fathers fall on their knees?

The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow, The devotion to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow.

No more let life divide what death can join together.

Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

Ah! what a divine religion might be found out if charity were really made the principle of it instead of faith.