708 Quotes by Percy Bysshe Shelley

The awful shadow of some unseen Power Floats, tho' unseen, amongst us.

Thou art Justice ne'er for gold May thy righteous laws be sold As laws are in England thou Shield'st alike the high and low.

Man's yesterday may ne'er be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

The great secret of morals is love; or a going out of our nature, and an identification of ourselves with the beautiful which exists in thought, action, or person, not our own. A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasure of his species must become his own. The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.

Oh that simplicity and innocence its own unvalued work so seldom knows!

A pard-like spirit, beautiful and swift.

GOVERNMENT has no rights; it is a delegation from several individuals for the purpose of securing their own. It is therefore just, only so far as it exists by their consent, useful only so far as it operates to their well-being.

Who killed Johnny Keats? "I," said the Quarterly, "So savage and tartarly, 'Twas one of my feats

We know not what we do When we speak words.