Without Contraries is no progression. Attraction and Repulsion, Reason and Energy, Love and Hate, are necessary to Human existence.
What is now proved was once only imagined.
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.
The busy bee has no time for sorrow.
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 never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
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.