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" Love is free; to promise for ever to love the same woman is not less absurd than to promise to believe the same creed; such a vow in both cases excludes us from all inquiry. "

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" First our pleasures die - and then our hopes, and then our fears - and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust - and we die too. "

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Dust

Hopes

First

" Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim. "

" War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade. "

" Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds. "

" Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory. "

" 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. "

" Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it. "

" Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age. "

" Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. "

" When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid - in which case all comment is superfluous - or it is something formidable, the very crux of the problem. "

" Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should be a stockbroker. "

" Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability. "

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Never

Endure

" Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain. "

" Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder. "

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

" If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind? "

" I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight. "

" Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things. "

" Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon. "

" Fear not for the future, weep not for the past. "

" History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man. "

" Concerning God, freewill and destiny: Of all that earth has been or yet may be, all that vain men imagine or believe, or hope can paint or suffering may achieve, we descanted. "

" In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect. "

" Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness. "

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Selfishness

Religion

" There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been! "

" The great instrument of moral good is the imagination. "

" The more we study the more we discover our ignorance. "

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Our

Study

" The soul's joy lies in doing. "

" Soul meets soul on lovers' lips. "

" The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys. "