The pride of the peacock is the glory of God. The lust of the goat is the bounty of God. The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God. The nakedness of woman is the work of God.
Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.
He who doubts from what he sees Will ne’er believe, do what you please.
He who sees the Infinite in all things sees God.
And is he honest who resists his genius or conscience only for the sake of present ease or gratification.
A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
First thought is best in Art, second in other matters.
To Mercy, Pity, Peace and Love All pray in their distress, And to these virtues of delight Return their thankfulness.
I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me.
This life’s dim windows of the soul Distorts the heavens from pole to pole And leads you to believe a lie When you see with, not through, the eye.
You become what you behold.
Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.
O God, protect me from my friends, that they have not power over me. Thou hast giv’n me power to protect myself from thy bitterest enemies.
There can be no Good Will. Will is always Evil; it is persecution to others or selfishness.
Why cannot the ear be closed to its own destruction? Or the glistening eye to the poison of a smile?
Joy and woe are woven fine.
When Sir Joshua Reynolds died All Nature was degraded.
Prepare your hearts for Death’s cold hand! prepare Your souls for flight, your bodies for the earth; Prepare your arms for glorious victory; Prepare your eyes to meet a holy God! Prepare, prepare!
Since the French Revolution Englishmen are all intermeasurable one by another, certainly a happy state of agreement to which I forone do not agree.
Energy is the only life, and is from the body; and reason is the bound or outward circumference of energy. Energy is eternal delight.