“To generalize is to be an idiot.”

“That which can be made Explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.”

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

“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.”

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

“The eye altering, alters all.”

“O Rose, thou art sick.The invisible wormThat flies in the nightIn the howling stormHas found out thy bedOf crimson joy,And his dark secret loveDoes thy life destroy.”