Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.

No more let life divide what death can join together.

Contemporary criticism only represents the amount of ignorance genius has to contend with. . . . Time will reverse the judgement of the vulgar.

In fact, truth cannot be communicated until it is perceived.

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

Many a green isle needs must be In the deep wide sea of Misery, Or the mariner, worn and wan, Never thus could voyage on.

Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted.