In proportion to the love existing among men, so will be the community of property and power. Among true and real friends, all is common; and, were ignorance and envy and superstition banished from the world, all mankind would be friends. The only perfect and genuine republic is that which comprehends every living being. Those distinctions which have been artificially set up, of nations, societies, families, and religions, are only general names, expressing the abhorrence and contempt with which men blindly consider their fellowmen.

No one has yet been found resolute enough in dogmatizing to deny that Nature made man equal; that society has destroyed this equality is a truth not more incontrovertible.

Worse than a bloody hand is a hard heart.

Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.

I Fall upon the thorns of life.

Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.