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.
— William Blake
Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white.
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.
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.
What is now proved was once only imagined.
Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
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.
Great things are done when men and mountains meet.
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they'd immediately go out.
I have no name: I am but two days old. What shall I call thee? I happy am, Joy is my name. Sweet joy befall 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.
Lives in eternity's sun rise.
Exuberance is beauty.
The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy, And the dimpling stream runs laughing by; When the air does laugh with our merry wit, And the green hill laughs with the noise of it.
Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too.
No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.
Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction.
The weak in courage is strong in cunning.
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.
Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.
To generalize is to be an idiot.
Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.
The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
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 glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel'd to heaven is no artist.
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.
