When you can discover where the fresh colors of the faded flower abide, or the music of the broken lyre, seek life among the dead. Such are the anxious and fearful contemplations of the common observer, though the popular religion often prevents him from confessing them even to himself.

Duty and dereliction guide thee back to solitude.

...Ere midnight’s frown and morning’s smile, ere thou and peace may meet.

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

It is among men of genius and science that atheism alone is found.

No mistake is more to be deplored than the conception that a system of morals and religion should derive any portion of its authority either from the circumstance of its novelty or its antiquity, that it should be judged excellent, not because it is reasonable or true, but because no person has ever thought of it before, or because it has been thought of from the beginning of time.

When the lamp is shattered The light in the dust lies dead - When the cloud is scattered The rainbow's glory is shed.