The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
Eternity is in love with the productions of time.
Energy is the only life and is from the Body and Reason is the bound or outward circumference of Energy.
Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
The ancient tradition that the world will be consumed in fire at the end of six thousand years is true, as I have heard from Hell. For the cherub with his flaming sword is hereby commanded to leave his guard at tree of life, and when he does, the who...
Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.
For every thing that lives is Holy.
The Prophets Isaiah and Ezekiel dined with me, and I asked them how they dared so roundly to assert, that God spoke to them; and whether they did not think at the time, that they would be misunderstood, & so be the cause of imposition. Isaiah answer'...
If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.
The Devil answer'd: bray a fool in a morter with wheat, yet shall not his folly be beaten out of him; if Jesus Christ is the greatest man, you ought to love him in the greatest degree; now hear how he has given his sanction to the law of ten commandm...
But when he has done this, let him not say that he knows better than his master, for he only holds a candle in sunshine.
Expect poison from the standing water.
The hours of folly are measur’d by the clock, but of wisdom: no clock can measure.
Dip him in the river who loves water.
