The roaring of lions, the howling of wolves, the raging of the stormy sea, and the destructive sword, are portions of eternity too great for the eye of man. |
The selfish smiling fool, and the sullen frowning fool, shall be both thought wise, that they may be a rod. |
The soul of sweet delight, can never be defiled. |
The sound is forced, the notes are few! |
The strongest poison ever known / Came from Caesar's laurel crown. |
The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest. |
The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction. |
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. |
The true method of knowledge is experiment. |
The Vision of Christ that thou dost see / Is my vision's greatest enemy. |
The voice of honest indignation is the voice of God. |
The weak in courage is strong in cunning. |
The whore and gambler, by the state Licensed, build the nation's fate |
The world of imagination is the world of eternity. It is the divine bosom into which we shall all go after the death of the vegetated [i.e. mortal] body. This world of imagination is infinite and eternal, whereas the world of generation is finite and temporal. There exist in that eternal world the eternal realities of everything which we see reflected in this vegetable glass of nature. |
The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God. |