William Blake

Love seeketh not itself to please, but for another gives its ease.

What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.

To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes.

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

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.

What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.

That the Jews assumed a right exclusively to the benefits of God will be a lasting witness against them and the same will it be against Christians.

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

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.

The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel'd to heaven is no artist.

Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser's passion, not the thief s.

I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love.