“Without contraries there is no progression.”
Simplicity is the glory of expression.
Eternity is in love with the productions of time.
A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
“To cast aside from Poetry, all that is not Inspiration”
“In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.”
“Prudence is a rich, ugly old maid courted by incapacity.”
“Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright in the forests of the night.”
''As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.''
Energy is an eternal delight, and he who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.
Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too.
The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.
“The stars are threshed, and the souls are threshed from their husks.”
“Enthusiastic admiration is the first principle of knowledge and the last”
“Do what you will, this life's a fiction, And it is made up of contradiction.”
All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor.
“Vision is the end of religion.”
For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.
In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.
Excess of sorrow laughs. Excess of joy weeps.
Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.