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

Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life.

Those who control their passions do so because their passions are weak enough to be controlled.

In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.

Every harlot was a virgin once

When nations grow old the Arts grow cold And commerce settles on every tree

He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.

A truth that’s told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

And Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds, And binding with briars, my joys & desires.

The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.

Never seek to tell thy love; Love that never told can be. For the gentle wind does move silently invisibly.

Sooner strangle an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires.

Prisons are built with stones of Law, Brothels with bricks of Religion

Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom. You never know what is enough until you know what is more than enough.

He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.

I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me.

One of the surprising privileges of intellectuals is that they are free to be scandalously asinine without harming their reputations.

Science, not religion, has taught me my most useful values, among them intellectual honesty. It is better to go without answers than to accept those that merely resolve puzzlement.

I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It’s a metaphor for women’s lives, their creativity.

Intellect takes you to the door, but it doesn’t take you into the house.

However much you study, you cannot know without action. A donkey laden with books is neither an intellectual nor a wise man. Empty of essence, what learning has he whether upon him is firewood or book?

Luck is of little moment to the great general, for it is under the control of his intellect and his judgment.

I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not.

Every person thinks his own intellect perfect, and his own child handsome.