Far clouds of feathery gold, Shaded with deepest purple, gleam Like islands on a dark blue sea.

Those who inflict must suffer, for they see The work of their own hearts, and this must be Our chastisement or recompense.

If certain Critics were as clearsighted as they are malignant, how great would be the benefit to be derived from their writings!

I never was attached to that great sect, Whose doctrine is that each one should select Out of the crowd a mistress or a friend, And all the rest, though fair and wise, commend, To cold oblivion.

Kiss me, so long but as a kiss may last!

The nature of a narrow and malevolent spirit is so essentially incompatible with happiness as to render it inaccessible to the influences of the benignant God.

You ought to love all mankind; nay, every individual of mankind. You ought not to love the individuals of your domestic circles less, but to love those who exist beyond it more. Once make the feelings of confidence and of affection universal, and the distinctions of property and power will vanish; nor are they to be abolished without substituting something equivalent in mischief to them, until all mankind shall acknowledge an entire community of rights.