The Angel that presided o'er my birth Said, 'Little creature, formed of joy and mirth, Go love without the help of any thing on earth'.

Christianity is art and not money. Money is its curse.

We are not meant to resolve all contradictions but to live with them and rise above them.

They who forgive most shall be most forgiven.

I must create a system, or be enslav'd by another man's.

To me this world is all one continued vision of fancy or imagination, and I feel flattered when I am told so. What is it sets Homer, Virgil and Milton in so high a rank of art? Why is the Bible more entertaining and instructive than any other book? Is it not because they are addressed to the imagination, which is spiritual sensation, and but immediately to the understanding or reason?

Every man who is not an artist is a traitor to his own nature.