General knowledges are those knowledges that idiots possess.

I rest not from my great task! | To open the Eternal Worlds, | to open the immortal Eyes of Man | Inwards into the Worlds of Thought; | Into eternity, ever expanding | In the Bosom of God, | The Human Imagination

How can a bird that is born for joy Sit in a cage and sing?

Never seek to tell thy love; Love that never told can be. For the gentle wind does move silently.. invisibly.

Reason, or the ratio of all we have already known, is not the same that it shall be when we know more.

I must create a system, or be enslav'd by another man's.

The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.