Sooner strangle an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires.

For I dance And drink and sing, Till some blind hand Shall brush my wing. If thought is life And strength and breath And the want Of thought is death Then am I A happy fly If I live Or if I die

Love seeketh only self to please, To bind another to its delight, Joys in another's loss of ease, And builds a Hell in Heaven's despite.

Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.

The Errors of a Wise Man make your Rule Rather than the Perfections of a Fool.

Degrade first the Arts if you'd Mankind Degrade. Hire Idiots to Paint with cold light & hot shade: Give high Price for the worst, leave the best in disgrace, And with Labours of Ignorance fill every place.

The apple tree never asks the beech how he shall grow, nor the lion, the horse, how he shall take his prey.