"The light of love, the purity of grace,The mind, the Music breathing from her face, The heart whose softness harmonised the whole —And, oh! that eye was in itself a Soul!"
"I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned."
"We are all the fools of time and terror: DaysSteal on us and steal from us; yet we live,Loathing our life, and dreading still to die."
"There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything."
"Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep."
"Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves."