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

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.

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.

Premature certainty is the enemy of the truth.

We’re taught at such an early age to be against the communists, yet most of us don’t have the faintest idea what communism is. Only a fool lets somebody else tell him who his enemy is.

If you have an enemy, then learn and know your enemy, don’t just be mad at him or her.

Sometimes enemies are our best teachers, people can learn from their mistakes, destruction sometimes means rebirth.

The greatest enemy will hide in the last place you would ever look.

Let us go where the gods have shown us the way and the injustice of our enemies calls us.

If you overpower your enemy, then pardon him by way of thankfulness to Allah, for being able to subdue him.

Danger doesn’t always come from the enemy.