The moon, like a flower in heaven’s high bower, with silent delight sits and smiles on the night.
No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.
Eternity is in love with the productions of time.
God appears, and God is Light, to those poor souls who dwell in Night; but does a Human Form display to those who dwell in realms of Day.
The most sublime act is to set another before you.
The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does.
The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
The soul of sweet delight, can never be defiled.
The nakedness of woman is the work of God.
They who forgive most shall be most forgiven.
The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn of the crow.
Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.
Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.
Each man must create his own system, or else he is a slave to another man’s.
If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they’d immediately go out.
Great things are done when men and mountains meet.
Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
A good local pub has much in common with a church, except that a pub is warmer, and there’s more conversation.
In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors.
Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.