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

Oh that simplicity and innocence its own unvalued work so seldom knows!

My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!

Dust to the dust! but the pure spirit shall flow Back to the burning fountain whence it came, A portion of the Eternal.

Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe to natural temperance even than unintellectual sensuality; it strikes at the root of all domestic happiness, and consigns more than half of the human race to misery.

The psychological and moral comfort of a presence at once humble and understanding-this is the greatest benefit that the dog has bestowed upon man.

As belief is a passion of the mind, no degree of criminality is attachable to disbelief.