The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn of the crow

Then my verse I dishonor, my pictures despise, my person degrade and my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame; and my talents I bury, and dead is my fame.

The world of imagination is the world of eternity.

Love is weak when there is more doubt than there is trust, but love is most strong when you learn to trust even with all the doubts. If a thing loves, it is infinite.

It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only.

Kill not the moth nor butterfly, For the Last Judgement draweth nigh.

Nothing is real beyond imaginative patterns men make of reality.