Christianity indeed has equaled Judaism in the atrocities, and exceeded it in the extent of its desolation. Eleven millions of men, women, and children have been killed in battle, butchered in their sleep, burned to death at public festivals of sacrifice, poisoned, tortured, assassinated, and pillaged in the spirit of the Religion of Peace, and for the glory of the most merciful God.

Fame, power, and gold, are loved for their own sakes - are worshipped with a blind, habitual idolatry.

Contemporary criticism only represents the amount of ignorance genius has to contend with. . . . Time will reverse the judgement of the vulgar.

What do you think? Young women of rank eat - you will never guess what - garlick!

A God made by man undoubtedly has need of man to make himself known to man.

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

That orbed maiden, with white fire laden, Whom mortals call the moon.