I have been a wanderer among distant fields. I have sailed down mighty rivers.
Those who inflict must suffer, for they see The work of their own hearts, and this must be Our chastisement or recompense.
Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present.
Kings are like stars,-they rise and set, they have The worship of the world, but no repose.
Every fanatic or enemy of virtue is not at liberty to misrepresent the greatest geniuses and most heroic defenders of all that is valuable in this mortal world.
No one has yet been found resolute enough in dogmatizing to deny that Nature made man equal; that society has destroyed this equality is a truth not more incontrovertible.
Power, like a desolating pestilence, Pollutes whate’er it touches; and obedience, Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth, Makes slaves of men, and of the human frame A mechanized automaton.
He hath awakened from the dream of life.
Just a tender sense of my own process, that holds something of my connection with the divine.
I love tranquil solitude.
The moon of Mahomet Arose, and it shall set; While, blazoned as on heaven’s immortal noon, The cross leads generations on.
I am the daughter of Earth and Water, And the nursling of the Sky; I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores; I change, but I cannot die.
The cloud shadows of midnight possess their own repose...
That orbed maiden, with white fire laden, Whom mortals call the moon.
Sometimes The Devil is a gentleman.
Men must reap the things they sow, Force from force must ever flow.
Can man be free if woman be a slave?
Religion pervades intensely the whole frame of society, and is according to the temper of the mind which it inhabits, a passion, a persuasion, an excuse, a refuge; never a check.
I never was attached to that great sect, Whose doctrine is that each one should select Out of the crowd a mistress or a friend, And all the rest, though fair and wise, commend, To cold oblivion.
That sweet sleep which medicines all pain.