"Shelley is truth itself and honour itself notwithstanding his out-of-the-way notions about religion." ― George Byron Topic(s): Religion More From George Byron "What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence." "Women hate everything which strips off the tinsel of sentiment, and they are right, or it would rob them of their weapons." "There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more." More In Religion "What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don’t like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don’t expect freedom to survive very long."― Thomas Sowell "Mysticism, poor mysticism! When it is underestimated and oversimplified, it comes down from its original sphere and stands beside religion."― Sri Chinmoy "There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt."― Niccolo Machiavelli