Familiar acts are beautiful through love.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Fear not for the future weep not for the past.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

First our pleasures die - and then Our hopes and then our fears - and when These are dead the debt is due Dust claims dust - and we die too.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

God is a hypothesis, and, as such, stands in need of proof: the onus probandi rests on the theist.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

God is represented as infinite, eternal, incomprehensible; he is contained under every predicate in none that the logic of ignorance could fabricate.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Hail to the blithe Spirit! Bird thou never were That from Heaven or near it Poorest thy full heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated art.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Hence in solitude, or that deserted state when we are surrounded by human beings, and yet they sympathize not with us, we love the flowers, the grass, the waters, and the sky. In the motion of the very leaves of spring, in the blue air, there is then found a secret correspondence with our heart.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

He wanders, like a day-appearing dream, Through the dim wildernesses of the mind; Through desert woods and tracts, which seem Like ocean, homeless, boundless, unconfined.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley