Demonstration, similitude & harmony are objects of reasoning. Invention, identity & melody are objects of intuition.

The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.

Men are admitted into heaven not because they have curbed or governed their passions, but because they have cultivate their understandings.

Make your own rules or be a slave to another man's.

If a thing loves, it is infinite.

Rome & Greece swept Art into their maw & destroy'd it; a Warlike State never can produce Art. It will Rob & Plunder & accumulate into one place, & Translate & Copy & Buy & Sell & Criticize, but not Make.

England! awake! awake! awake! Jerusalem thy sister calls! Why wilt thou sleep the sleep of death And close her from thy ancient walls?