“The weak in courage is strong in cunning.”

“Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.”

“Those who control their passions do so because their passions are weak enough to be controlled.”

“What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.”

“Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained; and the restrainer or reason usurps its place & governs the unwilling.And being restrain'd it by degrees becomes passive till it is only the shadow of desire.”

“London I wander thro' each charter'd street, Near where the charter'd Thames does flow. And mark in every face I meet Marks of weakness, marks of woe. In every cry of every Man, In every Infants cry of fear, In every voice: in every ban, The mind-forg'd manacles I hear How the Chimney-sweepers cry Every blackning Church appalls, And the hapless Soldiers sigh Runs in blood down Palace walls But most thro' midnight streets I hear How the youthful Harlots curse Blasts the new-born Infants tear And blights with plagues the Marriage hearse.”

“As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.”