The crime of inquiry is one which religion never has forgiven.

Nature rejects the monarch, not the man; the subject, not the citizen... The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.

Of Planets, struggling fierce towards heaven's free wilderness.

A story of particular facts is a mirror which obscures and distorts that which should be beautiful; poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which it distorts.

A dream has power to poison sleep.

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.

Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.