• This life's dim windows of the soul Distorts the heavens from pole to pole And leads you to believe a lie When you see with, not through, the eye.

• It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

• 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.

• No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.

• Where Mercy, Love, and Pity dwell There God is dwelling too.

• A truth that's told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent.

• Mutual forgiveness of each vice. Such are the Gates of Paradise.

• 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.

• He's a Blockhead who wants a proof of what he Can't Percieve And he's a Fool who tries to make such a Blockhead believe.

• When the doors of perception are cleansed, man will see things as they truly are, infinite.

• 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.

• 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.

• The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.

• For Mercy has a human heart, Pity, a human face, And Love, the human form divine, And Peace, the human dress.

• The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.

• What is now proved was once only imagined.

• You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.

• He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.

• 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 dispite.

• Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache do be my enemy--for friendship's sake.

• The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

• The weak in courage is strong in cunning.

• To generalize is to be an idiot.

• I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's.

• And because I am happy and dance and sing, They think they have done me no injury.

• If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.

• 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.

• My mother groan'd, my father wept Into the dangerous world I leapt, Helpless, naked, piping load, Like a friend hid in a cloud.

• Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with Ignorance.

• Always be ready to speak your mind and a base man will avoid you.

• Energy is eternal delight.

• I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me.

• As I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius which to Angels look like torment and insanity. I collected some of their Proverbs.

• Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

• When thou seest an eagle, thou seest a portion of genius lift up thy head.