I Am As Free As Nature First

Take Not Away The Life You Cannot Give: For All Things Have An Equal Right To Live.

For Granting We Have Sinned, And That The Offence Of Man Is Made Against Omnipotence, Some Price That Bears Proportion Must Be Paid, And Infinite With Infinite Be Weighed.

Love Reckons Hours For Months, And Days For Years; And Every Little Absence Is An Age.

Happy The Man, And Happy He Alone, He, Who Can Call Today His Own.

How Easy It Is To Call Rogue And Villain, And That Wittily! But How Hard To Make A Man Appear A Fool, A Blockhead, Or A Knave, Without Using Any Of Those Opprobrious Terms! Tosparethegrossness Ofthenames, And To Dothe Thing Yet Moreseverely, Isto Drawa Full Face, And Tomake The Nose And Cheeks Stand Out, And Yet Not To Employ Any Depth Of Shadowing.