True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those who move easiest have learned to dance.
A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.
I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell aspiring to be angels men rebel.
A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.
If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.
The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.
Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.
For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.
But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?
A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.
Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!
Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.
Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.
For Forms of Government let fools contest whatever is best administered is best.
The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.
Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
A little learning is a dangerous thing Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.
Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.