“Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.”

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

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

What is now proved was once only imagined.

Thus men forgot that all deities reside in the human breast.

Opposition is true Friendship.

The lamb misused breeds public strife And yet forgives the butcher’s knife.

A good local pub has much in common with a church, except that a pub is warmer, and there’s more conversation.

Exuberance is beauty.

Without Contraries is no Progression.

Make your own rules or be a slave to another man’s.

Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.

Energy is eternal delight.

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

A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.

The naked woman’s body is a portion of eternity too great for the eye of man.

Expect poison from the standing water.

If this should end in fire come, fill this desire.

It is not for its own sake that men desire money, but for the sake of what they can purchase with it.

Man naturally desires, not only to be loved, but to be lovely; or to be that thing which is the natural and proper object of love.

Duty without love is deplorable. Duty with love is desirable. Love without duty is Divine.

A man’s wealth must be determined by the relation of his desires and expenditures to his income. If he feels rich on ten dollars, and has everything else he desires, he really is rich.

LIFE + DESIRE = MAN; LIFE – DESIRE = GOD.

We should always speak what would please the man of whom we expect a favor, like the hunter who sings sweetly when he desires to shoot a deer.

We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.