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

I wish no living thing to suffer pain.

It is easier to suppose that the universe has existed for all eternity than to conceive a being beyond its limits capable of creating it.

Fame, power, and gold, are loved for their own sakes - are worshipped with a blind, habitual idolatry.

Nothing of him that doth fade But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange

It were much better that a sentient being should never have existed, than that it should have existed only to endure unmitigated misery.

One word is too often profaned For me to profane it, One feeling too falsely disdained For thee to disdain it.