William Blake

The soul of sweet delight, can never be defiled.

Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.

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

Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white.

The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.

When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend.

Do what you will this life's a fiction, And is made up of contradiction.

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_x000D_ And a heaven in a wild flower,_x000D_ Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,_x000D_ And eternity in an hour.

You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.

Without Unceasing Practice nothing can be done. Practice is Art. If you leave off you are lost.

The fox condemns the trap, not himself.

If you, who are organised by Divine Providence for spiritual communion, refuse, and bury your talent in the earth, even though you should want natural bread, sorrow and desperation pursue you through life, and after death shame and confusion of face to eternity.

He who pretends to be either painter or engraver without being a master of drawing is an imposter.

Why stand we here trembling around, calling on God for help, and not ourselves, in whom God dwells?

The person who does not believe in miracles surely makes it certain that he or she will never take part in one.

What is it men in women do require: The lineaments of gratified desire. What is it women do in men require: The lineaments of gratified desire.

The human mind cannot go beyond the gift of God, the Holy Ghost. To suppose that art can go beyond the finest specimens of art that are now in the world is not knowing what art is; it is being blind to the gifts of the spirit.

One Power alone makes a Poet: Imagination. The Divine Vision.

Pay attention to minute particulars. Take care of the little ones. Generalization and abstraction are the plea of the hypocrite, scoundrel, and knave.

Gratitude, in itself, is heaven.