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

My heart in passion, and my head on rhymes.

A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

He was a man of his times. with one virtue and a thousand crimes. (The Corsair)

To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all.

The sky is changed,-and such a change! O night And storm and darkness! ye are wondrous strong, Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman! Far along, From peak to peak, the rattling crags among, Leaps the live thunder.

Well, well, the world must turn upon its axis, And all mankind turn with it, heads or tails, And live and die, make love and pay our taxes, And as the veering winds shift, shift our sails.