A man can't soar too high, when he flies with his own wings.
What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O...
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.
Sooner strangle an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires.
I went to the Garden of Love, And saw what I never had seen: A Chapel was built in the midst, Where I used to play on the green. And the gates of this Chapel were shut, And 'Thou shalt not' writ over...
I have no nameI am but two days old.-What shall I call thee?I happy amJoy is my name,-Sweet joy befell thee!Pretty joy!Sweet joy but two days old.Sweet joy I call thee:Thou dost smile.I sing the while...
Some are born to sweet delight, Some are born to endless night.
The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
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 th...
The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.
The Lily of the valley, breathing in the humble grassAnswer'd the lovely maid and said: I am a watry weed,And I am very small, and love to dwell in lowly vales;So weak, the gilded butterfly scarce per...
Shame is Prides cloke.
It is right it should be so;Man was made for joy and woe;And when this we rightly know,Thro' the world we safely go.Joy and woe are woven fine,A clothing for the soul divine.Under every grief and pine...
I give you the end of a golden string,Only wind it into a ball,
I am made to sow the thistle for wheat; the nettle for a nourishing daintyI have planted a false oath in the earth, it has brought forth a poison treeI have chosen the serpent for a councellor & the d...
Tools were made and born were hands Every farmer understands.
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 particu...
A robin redbreast in a cage Sets all heaven in a rage.
Imitation is criticism.
The stars are threshed, and the souls are threshed from their husks.