"For truth has such a face and such a mien, As to be loved needs only to be seen."

"My thoughtless youth was winged with vain desires; My manhood, long misled by wandering fires, Followed false lights;…"

"For you may palm upon us new for old; All, as they say, that glitters, is not gold."

"Of all the tyrannies on human-kind, The worst is that which persecutes the mind."

"Reason to rule, but mercy to forgive; The first is law, the last prerogative."

"And kind as kings upon their coronation day."

"Too black for heaven, and yet too white for hell."

"As long as words a different sense will bear, And each may be his own interpreter, Our airy faith will no foundation …"

"And leaves the private conscience for the guide."

"And doomed to death, though fated not to die."