It is not a merit to tolerate, but rather a crime to be intolerant.

Men must reap the things they sow, Force from force must ever flow.

It is true that the reluctance to abstain from animal food, in those who have been long accustomed to its stimulus, is so great in some persons of weak minds, as to be scarcely overcome; but this is far from bringing any argument in its favour

We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

Cold hopes swarm like worms within our living clay.

A Christian, a Deist, a Turk, and a Jew, have equal rights: they are men and brethren.

O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being. Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing.