The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.

Opposition is true friendship.

He loves to sit and hear me sing, Then, laughing, sports and plays with me; Then stretches out my golden wing, And mocks my loss of liberty.

The Goddess Fortune is the devil's servant, ready to kiss any one's ass.

Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?

Without contraries there is no progression.

Mans desires are limited by his perceptions; none can desire what he has not perceived.