The eye sees more than the heart knows.

Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.

I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.

Poetry fettered fetters the human race.

Some say that happiness is not good for mortals, & they ought to be answered that sorrow is not fit for immortals & is utterly useless to any one; a blight never does good to a tree, & if a blight kill not a tree but it still bear fruit, let none say that the fruit was in consequence of the blight.

For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.