“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.”
Money
“Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.”
ArtAll Quotes by William Blake
“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.”
Imagination“The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal the good one really does.”
Great“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.”
Love“Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.”
Art“It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.”
Forgiveness“The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.”
Forgiveness“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“Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.”
Happiness“Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.”
Morning“He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sun rise.”
Life“When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.”
Truth“The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.”
Thankful“Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?”
Sad“Great things are done when men and mountains meet.”
Great“Travelers repose and dream among my leaves.”
Travel“It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only.”
God“The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.”
Friendship“Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.”
Art“A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.”
Truth