Famous Quotes

Quotes by William Blake

• That the Jews assumed a right exclusively to the benefits of God will be a lasting witness against them and the same will it be against Christians.
• The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
• 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.
• 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.
• The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
• The hours of folly are measured by the clock but of wisdom, no clock can measure.
• The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel'd to heaven is no artist.
• The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
• The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.
• 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.
• The true method of knowledge is experiment.
• The weak in courage is strong in cunning.
• Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.
• 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.
• Travelers repose and dream among my leaves.