I am really sorry to see my countrymen trouble themselves about politics. If men were wise, the most arbitrary princes could not hurt them. If they are not wise, the freest government is compelled to be a tyranny. Princes appear to me to be fools. Houses of Commons and Houses of Lords appear to me to be fools; they seem to me to be something else besides human life.

When the doors of perception are cleansed, men will see things as they truly are, infinite.

Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty !

Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

I see through my eyes, not with them.

Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.