"Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth."

"The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness."

"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."

"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."

"A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees."

"To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity in an hour."

"Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you."

"Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?"

"Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too."

"The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind."

"Great things are done when men and mountains meet."

"The eye altering, alters all."

"Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed."

"It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only."

"Active Evil is better than Passive Good."

"In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy."

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

"Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish."

"A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent."

"I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create."

"The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship."

"That the Jews assumed a right exclusively to the benefits of God will be a lasting witness against them and the same will it be against Christians."

"The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself."

"The fool who persists in his folly will become wise."

"What is now proved was once only imagined."

"To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hands, and eternity in an hour."

"The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose."

"If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise."

"The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction."

"I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow."

"I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love."

"The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest."

"The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom."

"If a thing loves, it is infinite."

"Exuberance is beauty."

"The weak in courage is strong in cunning."

"The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does."

"The true method of knowledge is experiment."

"To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes."

"Opposition is true friendship."

"He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star."

"I have no name: I am but two days old. What shall I call thee? I happy am, Joy is my name. Sweet joy befall thee!"

"Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction."

"The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure."

"Travelers repose and dream among my leaves."

"Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity."

"He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sun rise."

"Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence."

"Better murder an infant in its cradle than nurse an unacted desire."

"Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white."