Can I see another’s woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another’s grief, and not seek for kind relief?
Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.
Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.
The true method of knowledge is experiment.
Active Evil is better than Passive Good.
You throw the sand against the wind and the wind blows it back again.
Opposition is true friendship.
When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend.
One thought fills immensity.
Every harlot was a virgin once.
He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
Life delights in life.
As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.
Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too.
The cistern contains: The fountain overflows.
The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.
The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel’d to heaven is no artist.
Some are born to sweet delight, Some are born to endless night.
Energy is eternal delight.
To create a little flower is the labour of ages.