On with the dance! let joy be unconfin'd No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the Glowing Hours with Flying feet

I do not believe in any religion, I will have nothing to do with immortality. We are miserable enough in this life without speculating upon another.

The Christian has greatly the advantage of the unbeliever, having everything to gain and nothing to lose.

The fact is that my wife if she had common sense would have more power over me than any other whatsoever, for my heart always alights upon the nearest perch.

Shelley is truth itself and honour itself notwithstanding his out-of-the-way notions about religion.

'Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark our coming, and look brighter when we come.

The cold, the changed, perchance the dead, anew, The mourn'd, the loved, the lost,-too many, yet how few!