“And is he honest who resists his genius or conscience only for the sake of present ease or gratification”

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.

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.