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

Do what you will, this life’s a fiction, And it is made up of contradiction.

We become what we behold.

Always be ready to speak your mind and a base man will avoid you.

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.

Excuse my enthusiasm or rather madness, for I am really drunk with intellectual vision whenever I take a pencil or graver into my hand.

To Generalize is to be an Idiot; To Particularize is the Alone Distinction of Merit.

The eye altering, alters all.

My mother groaned, my father wept,i nto the dangerous world I leapt.

Mercy is the golden chain by which society is bound together.

If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is – infinite.

I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man’s. I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.

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.

To destroy a man is difficult, almost as difficult as to create one: it has not been easy, nor quick, but you Germans have succeeded. Here we are, docile under your gaze; from our side you have nothing more to fear; no acts of violence, no words of defiance, not even a look of judgment.

The most dangerous flaws are those which are good in moderation,” she said. “Evil is easy to fight. Lack of wisdom… that is very hard indeed.

The right choice is hardly ever the easy choice.

It is comparatively easy to achieve a certain unity in a picture by allowing one colour to dominate, or by muting all the colours.

I wish the music business was a much easier thing, but you know what? Nothing easy is worth anything. So it is what it is.

Their attitudes result either in profit or in loss for the enterpriser. They make poor men rich and rich men poor. They are no easy bosses.

Sometimes it’s easy to have ideas, but somebody has to find a way to do it. Often those responsible for finding a way don’t have the idea.

It’s not easy to work with me, I recognize that. It’s not easy if those people aren’t as perfectionistic as I am.