Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.

The eye altering, alters all.

Why stand we here trembling around, calling on God for help, and not ourselves, in whom God dwells?

To the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.

Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.

The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.

To be an Error and to be Cast out is a part of God's Design.