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.
Percy Bysshe ShelleyWhatever may be his true and final destination, there is a spirit within him at enmity with nothingness and dissolution. This is the character of all life and being.
Percy Bysshe ShelleyA system could not well have been devised more studiously hostile to human happiness than marriage.
Percy Bysshe Shelley