You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue.

Down the winding cavern we groped our tedious way, till a void boundless as the nether sky appeared beneath us, and we held by the roots of trees and hung over this immensity; but I said: if you please we will commit ourselves to this void and see whether providence is here also.

The ancient Poets animated all sensible objects with Gods or Geniuses, calling them by the names and adorning them with the properties of woods, rivers, mountains, lakes, cities, nations, and whatever their enlarged & numerous senses could perceive.

The generations of men run on in the tide of time, but leave their destined lineaments permanent for ever and ever.

We are not meant to resolve all contradictions but to live with them and rise above them.

If you would help another man, you must do so in minute particulars.

Children of the future age Reading this indignant page Know that in a former time Love, sweet love, was thought a crime