“Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell aspiring to be angels men rebel.”
Best“For Forms of Government let fools contest whatever is best administered is best.”
Best“Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell aspiring to be angels men rebel.”
Best“The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.”
Change“Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.”
Hope“A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.”
Art“To err is human to forgive, divine.”
Forgiveness“But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?”
Future“One science only will one genius fit so vast is art, so narrow human wit.”
Art“All nature is but art unknown to thee.”
Art“So vast is art, so narrow human wit.”
Art“Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.”
Men“Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.”
Alone“Health consists with temperance alone.”
Alone“Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.”
Education“The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.”
Intelligence“An honest man's the noblest work of God.”
God“Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can.”
Women“And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade.”
Truth“What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.”
Diet“The learned is happy, nature to explore The fool is happy, that he knows no more.”
Nature“Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.”
Hope