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

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.

The weak in courage is strong in cunning.

The busy bee has no time for sorrow.

For I dance And drink and sing, Till some blind hand Shall brush my wing.

For all eternity, I forgive you and you forgive me.

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

Everything to be imagined is an image of truth.

The apple tree never asks the beech how he shall grow, nor the lion, the horse, how he shall take his prey.

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

As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.

There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.

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.

Everybody has a light and a dark side, and neither can exist without the other.

But one must do something about the past. It doesn’t just cease to be. It goes on existing and affecting the present, and in new and different ways, as if in some other dimension it too were growing.

Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!

I’m not a slave to a God that doesn’t exist, and I’m not a slave to a world that doesn’t give a shit.

Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.

Films have never shown the kind of relationship that can exist between two women.