"Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence."

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

"You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough."

"The naked woman's body is a portion of eternity too great for the eye of man."

"Better murder an infant in its cradle than nurse an unacted desire."

"Some are born to sweet delight Some are born to endless night."

"Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained."

"Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white."

"IV The bounded is loathed by its possessor. The same dull round even of a universe would soon become a mill with complicated wheels.V If the many become the same as the few, when possess'd, More! More! is the cry of a mistaken soul, less than All cannot satisfy Man.VI If any could desire what he is incapable of possessing, despair must be his eternal lot.VII The desire of Man being Infinite the possession is Infinite & himself Infinite."

"I have mental joys and mental health Mental friends and mental wealth I've a wife that I love and that loves me I've all but riches bodily."

"Eternity is in love with the productions of time."

"Christ's crucifix shall be made an excuse for executing criminals."

"Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death."

"For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life."

"A robin redbreast in a cage Sets all heaven in a rage."

"As a man is so he sees."

"Excuse my enthusiasm or rather madness, for I am really drunk with intellectual vision whenever I take a pencil or graver into my hand."

"If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite."

"I wander through each chartered street,Near where the chartered Thames does flow;A mark in every face I meet,Marks of weakness, marks of woe.In every cry of every man,In every infant's cry of fear,In every voice, in every ban,The mind-forged manacles I hear:How the chimney-sweeper's cryEvery blackening church appals,And the hapless soldier's sighRuns in blood down palace-walls.But most, through midnight streets I hearHow the youthful harlot's curseBlasts the new-born infant's tear,And blights with plagues the marriage-hearse."

"Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius."

"The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel'd to heaven is no artist."

"One thought fills immensity."

"Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion."

"Did he smile his work to see? Did he who made the Lamb make thee?"

"He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars."

"What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children."

"As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers."

"You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue."

"But to go to school in a summer morn,O! It drives all joy away;Under a cruel eye outworn,The little ones spend the dayIn sighing and dismay."

"Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps."

"What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride!"

"Man has no Body distinct from his Soul; for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age."

"Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser's passion, not the thief s."

"When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend."

"The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels & God, and at liberty when of Devils & Hell, is because he was a true Poet and of the Devil's party without knowing it."

"How can the bird that is born for joySit in a cage and sing?How can a child, when fears annoy,But droop his tender wing,And forget his youthful spring?"

"The soul of sweet delight, can never be defiled."

"Lives in eternity's sun rise."

"If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they'd immediately go out."

"The stars are threshed, and the souls are threshed from their husks."

"It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend."

"Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night."

"Energy is an eternal delight, and he who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence."

"What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care."

"Vision is the end of religion."

"There is a Moment in each Day that Satan cannot find."

"What is Above is Within ... the Circumference is Winthin, Without is formed the Selfish Center, and the Circumference still expands going forward to Eternity."