Those who enter the gates of heaven are not beings who have no passions or who have curbed the passions, but those who have cultivated an understanding of them.

In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors.

Little fly, thy summer's play My thoughtless hand has brushed away. Am not I a fly like thee? Or art not thou a man like me? For I dance and drink and sing, Till some blind hand shall brush my wing!

If you, who are organised by Divine Providence for spiritual communion, refuse, and bury your talent in the earth, even though you should want natural bread, sorrow and desperation pursue you through life, and after death shame and confusion of face to eternity.

All the destruction in Christian Europe has arisen from deism, which is natural religion.

The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does.

The cistern contains: The fountain overflows.