"A Robin Redbreast in a CagePuts all Heaven in a Rage.A dove house fill’d with doves and pigeonsShudders Hell thro’ all its regions.A Dog starv’d at his Master’s GatePredicts the ruin of the State.A Horse misus’d upon the RoadCalls to Heaven for Human blood.Each outcry of the hunted HareA fiber from the Brain does tear."
"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 now proved was once only imagined."
"If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is - infinite."
"Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death."
"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."