“Everything possible to be believed is an image of truth.”

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.

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.

I believe in the supreme worth of the individual and in his right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Believing that fundamental conditions of the country are sound, my son and I have for some days been purchasing sound common stocks

If I do a film, I go to the place where it is based on, interact with people, and then, I believe, you pick up things without you even noticing.

Never believe that body is permanent. Body is like a water bubble. Mind is like a mad monkey.

It’s not enough merely to believe there is a God. You must believe in the God who is there.

It appears, accordingly, from the experience of all ages and nations, I believe, that the work done by freemen comes cheaper in the end than that performed by slaves.

I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.

I wish to believe in immortality-I wish to live with you forever.