What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.
William Blake
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- Man has no Body distinct from his Soul for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age.
- 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.
- Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.
- Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.
- 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.