One thought fills immensity.
William Blake

Opposition is true friendship.
William Blake

Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.
William Blake

Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.
William Blake

Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity.
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.
William Blake

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
William Blake

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.
William Blake

The eye altering, alters all.
William Blake

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.
William Blake

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.
William Blake

The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
William Blake

The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.
William Blake

The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
William Blake

The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel'd to heaven is no artist.
William Blake

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
William Blake

The soul of sweet delight, can never be defiled.
William Blake

The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.
William Blake

The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.
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.
William Blake