Duty and dereliction guide thee back to solitude.

By all that is sacred in our hope for the human race, I conjure those who love happiness and truth to give a fair trial to the vegetable system!

The emptiness and folly of retaliation are apparent from every example which can be brought forward. Not only Jesus Christ, but the most eminent professors of every sect of philosophy, have reasoned against this futile superstition.

Man who man would be, must rule the empire of himself.

A poet, as he is the author to others of the highest wisdom, pleasure, virtue, and glory, so he ought personally to be the happiest, the best, the wisest, and the most illustrious of men.

But I am chained to Time, and cannot thence depart!

Among true and real friends, all is common; and were ignorance and envy and superstition banished from the world, all mankind would be friend.