Man has no Body distinct from his Soul; for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age.
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.
Little Lamb, who made thee, dost thou know who made thee, gave thee life and bid thee feed. By the stream and o’er the mead; gave thee clothing of delight, softest clothing, wooly, bright.
It is easier to forgive an Enemy than to forgive a Friend.
In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.
Improvement makes straight roads, but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of Genius.
Imagination, the real and eternal World of which this Vegetable Universe is but a faint shadow, and in which we shall live in our Eternal or Imaginative Bodies when these Vegetable Mortal Bodies are no more.
If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.
If the doors of perception were cleansed, every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite.
I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow.
I see the Past, Present and Future existing all at once Before me.
I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man’s. I will not reason compare. My business is to create.
