In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.
Active Evil is better than Passive Good.
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel'd to heaven is no artist.
What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.
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.
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.
Opposition is true friendship.
Exuberance is beauty.
Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.
The weak in courage is strong in cunning.
Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.
Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.
Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?
Eternity is in love with the productions of time.
Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.
I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.
The hours of folly are measured by the clock but of wisdom, no clock can measure.
The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.
Travelers repose and dream among my leaves.
The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too.
Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.
The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
The true method of knowledge is experiment.
A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.
The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal the good one really does.