“Opposition is true friendship.”
“The strongest poison ever known came from Caesar's laurel crown.”
“As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.”
“A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.”
“A truth that's told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent.”
“Nothing can be more contemptible than to suppose Public Records to be true.”
“The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.”
“Great things are done when men and mountains meet. This is not done by jostling in the street.”
“Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?”
“For every thing exists & not one sigh nor smile nor tear, One hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.”
“I must create a system or be enslaved by another man s; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.”
“What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.”
“I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow.”
“Fun I love, but too much Fun is of all things the most loathsom. Mirth is better than Fun & Happiness is better than Mirth.”
“My mother groaned, my father wept, into the dangerous world I leapt; helpless, naked, piping loud, like a fiend hid in a cloud.”
“To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour.”
“When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.”
“Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.”
“Without contraries there is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate are necessary to human existence.”
“To generalize is to be an idiot. To particularize is the alone distinction of merit. General knowledge are those knowledge that idiots possess.”
“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.”
“To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes.”
“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 a Wife & what is a Harlot? What is a Church & What Is a Theatre? are they Two & not One? can they Exist Separate? Are not Religion & Politics the Same Thing? Brotherhood is Religion O Demonstrations of Reason Dividing Families in Cruelty & Pride!”
“But Want of Money & the Distress of A Thief can never be alleged as the Cause of his Thieving, for many honest people endure greater hard ships with Fortitude. We must therefore seek the Cause else where than in want of Money for that is the Misers passion, not the Thiefs.”
“Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.”
“...some say that Happiness is not Good for Mortals & they ought to be answerd that Sorrow is not fit for Immortals & is utterly useless to any one a blight never does good to a tree & if a blight kill not a tree but it still bear fruit let none say that the fruit was in consequence of the blight.”
“Exuberance is beauty.”
“Energy is eternal delight.”
“One thought fills immensity.”