Men are admitted into heaven not because they have curbed and governed their passions or have no passions, but because they have cultivated their understandings. The treasures of heaven are not negations of passion, but realities of intellect, from which all the passions emanate uncurbed in their eternal glory.

When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.

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

Travelers repose and dream among my leaves.

Tyger! Tyger! burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

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

The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.