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

Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.

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

I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look like torment and insanity.

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

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

He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity’s sunrise.

Everything possible to be believed is an image of truth.

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

The moon, like a flower in heaven’s high bower, with silent delight sits and smiles on the night.

Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache: do be my enemy for friendship’s sake.

The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.

The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn of the crow

Fiery the Angels rose, & as they rose deep thunder roll’d Around their shores, indignant burning with the fires of Orc.

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

I will not reason and compare my business is to create.

We are here to learn to endure the beams of love.

Men of genius and talents have started out of a class, in which women have never yet been placed.

Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.

If so few female geniuses are found in history, it is because society denies them any means of expression.

Without a Stable Physical Structure, the Overflow of Genius Will Be Damaging.

The leader of the genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.

Genius lives only one story above the madness.

Progress and civilization are the results of the efforts of genius, not the gossip of the majority.

Genius is talent exercised with courage.