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

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

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

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!

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.

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.

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

The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.

The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.

Great things are done when men and mountains meet.

Travelers repose and dream among my leaves.

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

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

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

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

The true method of knowledge is experiment.

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.

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

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

The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.

He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sun rise.

The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.

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

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

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

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

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.

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

Opposition is true friendship.

What is now proved was once only imagined.

Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.

One thought fills immensity.

Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.

The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.

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.

I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love.