The apple tree never asks the beech how he shall grow, nor the lion, the horse, how he shall take his prey.
But when he has done this, let him not say that he knows better than his master, for he only holds a candle in sunshine.
My mother groaned, my father wept, into the dangerous world I leapt.
Sweet babe, in thy face Soft desires I can trace, Secret joys and secret smiles, Little pretty infant wiles.
I have no name: I am but two days old. What shall I call thee? I happy am, Joy is my name. Sweet joy befall thee!
Lives in eternity’s sun rise.
Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.
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 Particulars.
What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.
That the Jews assumed a right exclusively to the benefits of God will be a lasting witness against them and the same will it be against Christians.
You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue.
Christ’s crucifix shall be made an excuse for executing criminals.
Man has no Body distinct from his Soul; for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age.
I will not cease from mental fight Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand.
To cast aside from Poetry, all that is not Inspiration.
And we are put on this earth a little space that we might learn to bear the beams of love.
I give you the end of a golden string, Only wind it into a ball, It will lead you in at Heaven’s gate Built in Jerusalem’s wall.
Then cherish pity, lest you drive an angel from your door.
A dead body revenges not injuries.
Knowledge is Life with wings.