The music that can deepest reach, And cure all ill, is cordial speech

Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel

Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel.

Nor knowest thou what argument Thy like to thy neighbor's creed has lent, All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair or good alone.

It is one light which beams out of a thousand stars. It is one soul which animates all men.

Some of your hurts you have cured, / And the sharpest you still have survived, / But what torments of grief you endured / From evils which never arrived!