Quotes by William Blake

"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."

"I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create."

"The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness."

"The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship."

"Great things are done when men and mountains meet."

"What is now proved was once only imagined."

"If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite."

"One thought fills immensity."

"The true method of knowledge is experiment."

"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."

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

"The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest."

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

"The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure."

"The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom."

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

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

"Travelers repose and dream among my leaves."

"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."