Poetry, Painting & Music, the three Powers in man of conversing with Paradise, which the flood did not sweep away.

And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds and binding with briars my joys and desires. (from 'The Garden of Love')

Then the Parson might preach, & drink, & sing, And we'd be as happy as birds in the spring; And modest dame Lurch, who is always at Church, Would not have bandy children, nor fasting, nor birch.

Demonstration, similitude & harmony are objects of reasoning. Invention, identity & melody are objects of intuition.

The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.

Let the men do their duty & the women will be such wonders; the female life lives from the light of the male: see a man's female dependants, you know the man.

As the caterpillar chooses the fairest leaves to lay her eggs on, so the priest lays his curse on the fairest joys.