William Blake
The weak in courage is strong in cunning.Collection: Courage
What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.Collection: Men
To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour.Collection: Gardening
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.Collection: Life
Opposition is true friendship.Collection: Friendship
The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.Collection: Wisdom
Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.Collection: Morning
The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.Collection: Thanksgiving
No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.Collection: Motivational
Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.Collection: Sympathy
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.Collection: Forgiveness
Exuberance is beauty.Collection: Beauty
Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.Collection: Science
Travelers repose and dream among my leaves.Collection: Travel
Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.Collection: Beauty
What is now proved was once only imagined.Collection: Imagination
If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they'd immediately go out.Collection: Space
In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.Collection: Time
The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.Collection: Wisdom
The true method of knowledge is experiment.Collection: Knowledge
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.Collection: Age
I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.Collection: Business
If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.Collection: Inspirational
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.Collection: Experience
I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love.Collection: Love
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.Collection: Science
The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.Collection: Religion
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.Collection: Money
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 as Englishmen suppose.Collection: Art
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.Collection: Truth
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.Collection: Love
Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?Collection: Sad
A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.Collection: Truth
It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only.Collection: Men
To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes.Collection: Money
The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.Collection: Friendship
The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.Collection: Imagination
Great things are done when men and mountains meet.Collection: Great
What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride!Collection: Religion
Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.Collection: Imagination
Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.Collection: Music
Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too.Collection: God
One thought fills immensity.Collection: Intelligence
Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.Collection: Religion
He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.
Eternity is in love with the productions of time.
He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.
That the Jews assumed a right exclusively to the benefits of God will be a lasting witness against them and the same will it be against Christians.
The soul of sweet delight, can never be defiled.