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

Opposition is true friendship.

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

Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.

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.

Exuberance is beauty.

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

The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.

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

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.

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!

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Great things are done when men and mountains meet.

The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.

One thought fills immensity.

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

Travelers repose and dream among my leaves.

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

The weak in courage is strong in cunning.

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

Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.

What is now proved was once only imagined.

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