Obedience, Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth, Makes slaves of men, and, of the human frame, A mechanized automaton.

A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.

Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong. They learn in suffering what they teach in song.

Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.

Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present.

Power, like a desolating pestilence, Pollutes whate'er it touches.

Religion pervades intensely the whole frame of society, and is according to the temper of the mind which it inhabits, a passion, a persuasion, an excuse, a refuge; never a check.

To know nor faith, nor love, nor law; to be Omnipotent but friendless is to reign.

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

All spirits are enslaved which serve things evil.