Active Evil is better than Passive Good.

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

Every harlot was a virgin once.

And I made a rural pen, And I stained the water clear, And I wrote my happy songs Every Child may joy to hear.

The countless gold of a merry heart, The rubies and pearls of a loving eye, The indolent never can bring to the mart, Nor the secret hoard up in his treasury.

The most sublime act is to set another before you.

Some say that happiness is not good for mortals, & they ought to be answered 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.