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

It is easier to suppose that the universe has existed for all eternity than to conceive a being beyond its limits capable of creating it.

Sometimes The Devil is a gentleman.

The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.

At the very time that philosophers of the most enterprising benevolence were founding in Greece those institutions which have rendered it the wonder and luminary of the world, am I required to believe that the weak and wicked king of an obscure and barbarous nation, a murderer, a traitor and a tyrant, was the man after God's own heart?

Then black despair, The shadow of a starless night, was thrown Over the world in which I moved alone.

For this is the most civil sort of lie That can be given to a man's face. I now Say what I think.