"He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars"
"He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence"
"He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sun rise"
"Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser's passion, not the thief s"
"As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers"
"Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death"
"Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed"
"Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you"
"Exuberance is beauty"
"If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they'd immediately go out"
"What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children"
"Eternity is in love with the productions of time"
"Energy is an eternal delight, and he who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence"
"Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction"
"Christ's crucifix shall be made an excuse for executing criminals"
"Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?"
"Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white"
