Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.

Every fanatic or enemy of virtue is not at liberty to misrepresent the greatest geniuses and most heroic defenders of all that is valuable in this mortal world.

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

Nothing in the world is single, All things by a law divine, In one spirit meet and mingle-Why not I with thine?

Peace is in the grave.

When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid - in which case all comment is superfluous - or it is something formidable, the very crux of the problem.

The awful shadow of some unseen Power Floats, tho' unseen, amongst us.