God Is Represented As Infinite, Eternal, Incomprehensible;

But Hope Will Make Thee Young, For Hope And Youth Are Children Of One Mother, Even Love.

Chastity Is A Monkish And Evangelical Superstition, A Greater Foe To Natural Temperance Even Than Unintellectual Sensuality; It Strikes At The Root Of All Domestic Happiness, And Consigns More Than Half Of The Human Race To Misery.

The Crime Of Inquiry Is One Which Religion Never Has Forgiven.

Nothing Of Him That Doth Fade But Doth Suffer A Sea-change Into Something Rich And Strange

Age Cannot Love Destroy, But Perfidy Can Blast The Flower, Even When In Most Unwary Hour It Blooms In Fancy's Bower. Age Cannot Love Destroy, But Perfidy Can Rend The Shrine In Which Its Vermeil Splendours Shine.