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

He gave man speech, and speech created thought, Which is the measure of the universe.

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

Belief is involuntary; nothing involuntary is meritorious or reprehensible. A man ought not to be considered worse or better for his belief.

In proportion as a man is selfish, so far has he receded from the motive which constitutes virtue.

...What are numbers knit By force or custom? Man who man would be, Must rule the empire of himself; in it Must be supreme, establishing his throne On vanquished will, quelling the anarchy Of hopes and fears, being himself alone.

No man has a right to disturb the public peace, by personally resisting the execution of a law however bad. He ought to acquiesce, using at the same time the utmost powers of his reason, to promote its repeal.

Man is of soul and body, formed for deeds Of high resolve; on fancy's boldest wing.

So soon as this want or power [of love] is dead, man becomes the living sepulchre of himself, and what yet survives is the mere husk of what once he was.