Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.

If certain Critics were as clearsighted as they are malignant, how great would be the benefit to be derived from their writings!

Religion pervades intensely the whole frame of society, and is according to the temper of the mind which it inhabits, a passion, a persuasion, an excuse, a refuge; never a check.

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

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

Whatever strengthens and purifies the affections, enlarges the imagination, and adds spirit to sense, is useful.

Let the advocate of animal food, force himself to a decisive experiment on its fitness, and as Plutarch recommends, tear a living lamb with his teeth, and plunging his head into its vitals, slake his thirst with the steaming blood; when fresh from the deed of horror let him revert to the irresistible instincts of nature that would rise in judgment against it, and say, Nature formed me for such work as this. Then, and then only, would he be consistent.