Percy Bysshe Shelley

"If it be proved that the world is ruled by a Divine Power, no inference necessarily can be drawn from that circumstance in favour of a future state."

"The more we study, we the more discover / Our ignorance."

"Thy light alone like mist oer mountains driven, Or music by the night-wind sent Through strings of some still instrument, Or moonlight on a midnight stream, Gives grace and truth to lifes unquiet dream."

"I vowd that I would dedicate my powers To thee and thine: have I not kept the vow? With beating heart and streaming eyes, even now I call the phantoms of a thousand hours Each from his voiceless grave: they have in visiond bowers Of studious zeal or loves delight Outwatchd with me the envious night: They know that never joy illumd my brow Unlinkd with hope that thou wouldst free This world from its dark slavery, That thou, O awful , Wouldst give whateer these words cannot express."

"Then black despair, The shadow of a starless night, was thrown Over the world in which I moved alone."

"Have you not heard When a man marries, dies, or turns Hindoo, His best friends hear no more of him?"