Thinking as I do that the Creator of this world is a very cruel being, and being a worshipper of Christ, I cannot help saying: ''the Son, O how unlike the Father!'' First God Almighty comes with a thump on the head. Then Jesus Christ comes with a balm to heal it.

Enthusiastic Admiration is the first Principle of Knowledge and its last.

I cry, Love! Love! Love! happy happy Love! free as the mountain wind!

Innate ideas are in every man, born with him; they are truly himself. The man who says that we have no innate ideas must be a fool and knave, having no conscience or innate science.

Everything is beautiful in its own way. Exuberance is beauty.

Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained; and the restrainer or reason usurps its place & governs the unwilling. And being restrain'd it by degrees becomes passive till it is only the shadow of desire.

If you cannot imagine with the mind's eye much more than you can see with the mortal eye, you have a very poor imagination indeed.