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

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.

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.