“Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.”

Dip him in the river who loves water.

The roaring of lions, the howling of wolves, the raging of the stormy sea, and the destructive sword, are portions of eternity, too great for the eye of man.

Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell’s despair.

The most sublime act is to set another before you.

Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.

Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.

Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.

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.

There is no element of genius without some form of madness.

I have nothing to declare except my genius.

It is not the genius at the top giving directions that makes people great. It is great people that make the guy at the top look like a genius.

All geniuses die young.

The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor.

Passion is the genesis of genius.

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Genius: The capacity to see and to express what is simple, simply!