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.

That orbed maiden, with white fire laden, Whom mortals call the moon.

It is thus that the generality of mankind, whose lot is ignorance, attributes to the Divinity, not only the unusual effects which strike them, but moreover the most simple events, of which the causes are the most simple to understand by whomever is able to study them. In a word, man has always respected unknown causes, surprising effects that his ignorance kept him from unraveling. It was on this debris of nature that man raised the imaginary colossus of the Divinity.

There is a harmony In autumn, and a luster in its sky...

For this is the most civil sort of lie That can be given to a man's face. I now Say what I think.

The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.

...Ere midnight’s frown and morning’s smile, ere thou and peace may meet.