Percy Bysshe Shelley

"The greatest instrument of moral good is the imagination."

"We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence and its only end."

"Ah, sweet Content, where dost thou dwell?"

"The mind in creation is as a fading coal."

"Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whate'er it touches."

"Nothing exists but by opposition."

"To defy Power which seems omnipotent is the only way."

"Hell is a city much like London."

"The great secret of morals is Love."

"Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world."

"Let there be light! said Liberty, And like sunrise from the sea, Athens arose!"

"I have suffered what I have written, and some have suffered what I have caused to be written."

"The past is now."

"We live and die; but sights of exquisite beauty are eternal."

"A poem is the very image of life expressed in its eternal truth."

"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"

"Familiar acts are beautiful through love."

"When the lamp is shattered, the light in the dust lies dead."

"Fear not for the future, weep not for the past."

"I could believe in anything if it were taught in a congenial way."

"Virtue is its own reward."

"To hope till Hope creates from its own wreck the thing it contemplates."

"Teach thy sons all that thou hast taught thyself."

"The great monument of the lofty daring of the human mind."

"Nature never wears the same expression twice."

"Music, when soft voices die, vibrates in the memory."

"Mutability is the only permanence."

"One word is too often profaned for me to profess the faith I feel."

"The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow."

"Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform."