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

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.