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 opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.

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

If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thru chinks of his cavern.

The generations of men run on in the tide of time, but leave their destined lineaments permanent for ever and ever.

He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.

The truth told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent

Opposition is true friendship.

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.

What seems to be, is, to those to whom it seems to be, and is productive of the most dreadful consequences to those to whom it seems to be, even of torments, despair, eternal death.