To see a World in a Grain of Sand, And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand, And Eternity in an hour.
The true method of knowledge is experiment.
The Imagination is not a State: it is the Human Existence itself.
The Foundation of Empire is Art and Science. Remove them or Degrade them, and the Empire is No More. Empire follows Art and Not Vice Versa.
Science is the Tree of Death. Art is the Tree of Life. God is Jesus.
Every Night and every Morn, some to Misery are Born. Every Morn and every Night, some are Born to sweet delight, some are Born to Endless Night.
You cannot have Liberty in this World without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the Slavery of that half of the Human Race who hate what you call Moral Virtue.
Yet death is terrible, though borne on angels’ wings.
When I tell any truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.
What is it men in women do require? The lineaments of Gratified Desire. What is it women do in men require? The lineaments of Gratified Desire.
What is Grand is necessarily obscure to Weak men. That which can be made Explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.
We are led to believe a lie, when we see not through the eye, which was born in a night to perish in a night, when the soul slept in beams of light.