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

The moon, like a flower in heaven’s high bower, with silent delight sits and smiles on the night.

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

The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.

The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn of the crow

Fiery the Angels rose, & as they rose deep thunder roll’d Around their shores, indignant burning with the fires of Orc.

Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.

I will not reason and compare my business is to create.

We are here to learn to endure the beams of love.

What is now proved was once only imagined.

Thus men forgot that all deities reside in the human breast.

Opposition is true Friendship.

The lamb misused breeds public strife And yet forgives the butcher’s knife.

A good local pub has much in common with a church, except that a pub is warmer, and there’s more conversation.

Exuberance is beauty.

Without Contraries is no Progression.

Make your own rules or be a slave to another man’s.