The lamb misused breeds public strifeAnd yet forgives the butcher's knife.
The hours of folly are measured by the clock but of wisdom, no clock can measure.
The following Discourse [on art, by Sir Joshua Reynolds] is particularly Interesting to Blockheads as it endeavours to prove that There is No such thing as Inspiration & that any Man of a plain Unders...
Travelers repose and dream among my leaves.
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.
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.
All that we saw was owing to your metaphysics.
The Devil answer'd: bray a fool in a morter with wheat, yet shall not his folly be beaten out of him; if Jesus Christ is the greatest man, you ought to love him in the greatest degree; now hear how he...
A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
The apple tree never asks the beech how he shall grow, nor the lion, the horse, how he shall take his prey.
The weak in courage is strong in cunning.
Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.
The true method of knowledge is experiment.
My mother groaned, my father wept,into the dangerous world I leapt.
The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels & God, and at liberty when of Devils & Hell, is because he was a true Poet and of the Devil's party without knowing it.
Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.
One thought fills immensity.
O Rose thou art sick.The invisible worm.That flies in the nightIn the howling storm:Has found out thy bedOf crimson joy;And his dark secret loveDoes thy life destroy.-
IV The bounded is loathed by its possessor. The same dull round even of a universe would soon become a mill with complicated wheels.V If the many become the same as the few, when possess'd, More!...
He who desires but acts not breeds pestilence.
