"The lamb misused breeds public strifeAnd yet forgives the butcher's knife."

"Tools were made and born were hands Every farmer understands."

"Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth."

"The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness."

"I give you the end of a golden string,Only wind it into a ball,It will lead you in at Heaven's gateBuilt in Jerusalem's wall."

"Then cherish pity, lest you drive an angel from your door."

"Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair."

"The bird a nest the spider a web man friendship."

"When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do."

"A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees."

"Thou art a man, God is no more, Thy own humanity, Learn to adore."

"When nations grow old the Arts grow coldAnd commerce settles on every tree."

"But when he has done this, let him not say that he knows better than his master, for he only holds a candle in sunshine."

"In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between them, there are doors."

"To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity in an hour."

"Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you."

"Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?"

"Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life."

"Life delights in life."

"Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too."

"No bird soars too high if he soars on his own wings."

"He who replies to words of doubtdoth put the light of knowledge out."

"Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed."

"The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind."

"Great things are done when men and mountains meet."

"Answer this to yourselves, & expel from among you those who pretend to despise the labours of Art & Science, which alone are the labours of the Gospel: Is not this plain & manifest to the thought? Can you think at all, & not pronounce heartily! That to Labour in Knowledge. is to Build up Jerusalem: and to Despise Knowledge, is to Despise Jerusalem & her Builders. And remember: He who despises & mocks a Mental Gift in another; calling it pride & selfishness & sin; mocks Jesus the giver of every Mental Gift. which always appear to the ignorance-loving Hypocrite, as Sins. but that which is a Sin in the sight of cruel Man. is not so in the sight of our kind God."

"The eye altering, alters all."

"Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed."

"It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only."

"For every thing that lives is Holy."

"Active Evil is better than Passive Good."

"The ancient tradition that the world will be consumed in fire at the end of six thousand years is true, as I have heard from Hell.For the cherub with his flaming sword is hereby commanded to leave his guard at tree of life, and when he does, the whole creation will be consumed, and appear infinite, and holy whereas it now appears finite & corrupt."

"In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy."

"I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look like torment and insanity."

"Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow."

"General good is the plea of the scoundrel hypocite flatterer."

"We live as One Man for contracting our infinite senses we behold multitude or expanding: we behold as one."

"Did he who made the lamb make thee?"

"Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish."

"A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent."

"To Mercy Pity Peace and Love All pray in their distress."

"I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create."

"Energy is the only life and is from the Body and Reason is the bound or outward circumference of Energy."

"May God us keepFrom Single vision and Newton's sleep."

"The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship."

"The following Discourse [on art, by Sir Joshua Reynolds] is particularly Interesting to Blockheads as it endeavours to prove that There is No such thing as Inspiration & that any Man of a plain Understanding may by Thieving from Others become a Mich Angelo."

"That the Jews assumed a right exclusively to the benefits of God will be a lasting witness against them and the same will it be against Christians."

"The roaring of lions, the howling of wolves, the raging of the stormy sea, and the destructive sword, are portions of eternity, too great for the eye of man."

"Ah Sun-flower! weary of time,Who countest the steps of the Sun:Seeking after that sweet golden climeWhere the traveller's journey is done. Where the Youth pined away with desire,And the pale Virgin shrouded in snow: Arise from their graves and aspire, Where my Sun-flower wishes to go."

"How can a bird that is born for joySit in a cage and sing?"