William Blake

"A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent."

"The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose."

"Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death."

"Man has no Body distinct from his Soul; for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age."

"Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed."

"He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars."

"Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?"

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

"If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they'd immediately go out."

"Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair."

"No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings."

"Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish."

"Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion."

"The weak in courage is strong in cunning."

"Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night."

"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."

"Travelers repose and dream among my leaves."

"What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride!"

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

"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."