I was in a Printing-house in Hell, and saw the method in which knowledge is transmitted from generation to generation.
There is a smile of love, And there is a smile of deceit, And there is a smile of smiles In which these two smiles meet.
If the lion was advised by the fox, he would be cunning.
If you have form’d a circle to go into, Go into it yourself, and see how you would do. They said this mystery never shall cease: The priest promotes war, and the soldier peace.
You smile with pomp and rigor, you talk of benevolence and virtue; I act with benevolence and virtue and get murdered time after time.
Thou fair-hair’d angel of the evening, Now, whilst the sun rests on the mountains, light Thy bright torch of love; thy radiant crown Put on, and smile upon our evening bed!
O Earth, O Earth, return! Arise from out the dewy grass; Night is worn; And the morn Rises from the slumbrous mass.
The spirits of the air live on the smells Of fruit; and joy, with pinions light, roves round The gardens, or sits singing in the trees...
Father, O father! what do we here In this land of unbelief and fear?
The generations of men run on in the tide of time, but leave their destined lineaments permanent for ever and ever.
Since all the riches of this world May be gifts from the Devil and earthly kings, I should suspect that I worshipp’d the Devil If I thank’d my God for worldly things.
The stars are threshed, and the souls are threshed from their husks.
He who has few things to desire cannot have many to fear.
To generalize is to be an idiot. To particularize is the alone distinction of merit. General knowledge are those knowledge that idiots possess.
Each man is haunted until his humanity awakens.
Mans desires are limited by his perceptions; none can desire what he has not perceived.
Error is created; truth is eternal.
If you trap the moment before it’s ripe, The tears of repentence you’ll certainly wipe; But if once you let the ripe moment go You can never wipe off the tears of woe.
Imitation is criticism.
The Fool shall not enter into Heaven let him be ever so Holy.