Percy Bysshe Shelley

"I see thee not, I hear thee not, yet thou art there."

"Mighty as is the change wrought by the lapse of ages, the hearts of men are ever the same."

"The true measure of human goodness is its effect upon others."

"In the void of despair, hope is born."

"To love is to surrender one's boundaries to the beloved."

"Seek, and thou shalt find."

"The world's great age begins anew."

"The great secret of morals is love, or a going out of ourselves."

"We are all born into this world as ignorant as savages."

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious."

"To defy power, which seems omnipotent to the powerless, is the only way to assure its defeat."

"Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the best and happiest minds."

"Despair is the only true emotion in humanity."

"A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively."

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

"What is freedom but the absence of chains?"

"To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite, and yet hope on."

"Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought."

"Love is a great teacher; it shows us what we did not know before."

"The pathway to enlightenment is paved with questions."

"Friendship is the cement of society."

"Nature's voice speaks softly to those who listen."

"Time is the fire in which we all must burn."

"To laugh often and love much is to have succeeded."

"A want of friends is a want of everything."

"The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell."

"All things change, and we change with them."

"The human heart is a mirror of the universe."

"Art is the response to the demand for entertainment."

"Mortality weighs heavily upon the heart."