Gratitude is heaven itself; there could be no heaven without gratitude.

Degrade first the Arts if you'd Mankind Degrade. Hire Idiots to Paint with cold light & hot shade: Give high Price for the worst, leave the best in disgrace, And with Labours of Ignorance fill every place.

Opposition is true friendship.

Where others see but the dawn coming over the hill, I see the soul of God shouting for joy.

When nations grow old the Arts grow cold And commerce settles on every tree

For I dance And drink and sing, Till some blind hand Shall brush my wing. If thought is life And strength and breath And the want Of thought is death Then am I A happy fly If I live Or if I die

The fox condemns the trap, not himself.