“He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.”

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.

How can a bird that is born for joy Sit in a cage and sing?

Eternity is in love with the productions of time.

For every thing that lives is Holy.

You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.

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

Prudence is a rich, ugly old maid courted by incapacity.

The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.

In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors.

When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend

The crow wished everything was black, the Owl, that everything was white.

A man can’t soar too high, when he flies with his own wings.

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.

We are all born sexual creatures, thank God, but it’s a pity so many people despise and crush this natural gift.

No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion.

No single event can awaken within us a stranger whose existence we had never suspected. To live is to be slowly born.

I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.

Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.

No man or woman born, coward or brave, can shun his destiny.

Innovation is not born from the dream, innovation is born from the struggle.

If you are born with fame, it is an accident. If you die with fame, it is an achievement.