If others had not been foolish, we should be so.
For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.
The inquiry in England is not whether a man has talents and genius, but whether he is passive and polite and a virtuous ass and obedient to noblemen’s opinions in art and science. If he is, he is a good man. If not, he must be starved.
Can I see a falling tear, And not feel my sorrow’s share?
All the destruction in Christian Europe has arisen from deism, which is natural religion.
The eye sees more than the heart knows.
The Man who pretends to be a modest enquirer into the truth of a self-evident thing is a Knave.
If you cannot imagine with the mind’s eye much more than you can see with the mortal eye, you have a very poor imagination indeed.
The hand of Vengeance found the Bed To which the Purple Tyrant fled The iron hand crush’d the tyrant’s head And became Tyrant in his stead.
To be an Error and to be Cast out is a part of God’s Design.
Art degraded, Imagination denied.
Every man who is not an artist is a traitor to his own nature.
If you would help another man, you must do so in minute particulars.
Work up imagination to the state of vision.
Come o’er the eastern hills, and let our winds Kiss thy perfumed garments; let us taste Thy morn and evening breath; scatter thy pearls Upon our love-sick land that mourns for thee.
The atoms of Democritus And Newton’s particles of light Are sands upon the Red Sea shore, Where Israel’s tents do shine so bright.
God keep me from the divinity of Yes and Nothe Yea Nay Creeping Jesus, from supposing Up and Down to be the same thing as allexperimentalists must suppose.
Why a tender curb upon the youthful burning boy? Why a little curtain of flesh on the bed of our desire?
When Sir Joshua Reynolds died All Nature was degraded; The King dropped a tear in the Queen’s ear, And all his pictures faded.
Every wolf’s and lion’s howl Raises from Hell a human soul.