Percy Bysshe Shelley

All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.

Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age.

If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?

If you're not having a good time, find something else that gives you some joy in life.

Deep down, there is in the substance of the cosmos a primordial disposition, sui generis, for self-arrangement and self-involution.

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.