Percy Bysshe Shelley Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should be a stockbroker. – Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid – in which case all comment is superfluous – or it is something formidable, the very crux of the problem. – Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth. – Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect. – Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley Concerning God, freewill and destiny: Of all that earth has been or yet may be, all that vain men imagine or believe, or hope can paint or suffering may achieve, we descanted. – Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley Love is free; to promise for ever to love the same woman is not less absurd than to promise to believe the same creed; such a vow in both cases excludes us from all inquiry. – Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it. – Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley I think that the leaf of a tree, the meanest insect on which we trample, are in themselves arguments more conclusive than any which can be adduced that some vast intellect animates Infinity. – Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley Man’s yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability. – Percy Bysshe Shelley
