The apple tree never asks the beech
 how he shall grow, nor the lion the horse
 how he shall take his prey.

The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.

If others had not been foolish we should have been so.

The soul of sweet delight can never be defiled.

When thou seest an eagle, thou seest a portion
 of Genius. Lift up thy head!

As the caterpillar chooses the fairest leaves 
 to lay her eggs on, so the priest lays his curse
 on the fairest joys.

To create a little flower is the labour of ages.

Damn braces; bless relaxes.
 
The best wine is the oldest, 
 the best water the newest.

Prayers plough not; praises reap not; joys laugh not;
 sorrows weep not.

The head Sublime, the heart Pathos, 
 the genitals Beauty, the hands and feet Proportion.

As the air to a bird, or the sea to a fish, 
 so is contempt to the contemptible. 

The crow wished everything was black,
 the owl that everything was white.

Exuberance is Beauty.

If the lion was advised by the fox,
 he would be cunning.

Improvement makes straight roads,
 but the crooked roads without Improvement
 are roads of Genius.

Sooner murder an infant in its cradle
 than nurse unacted desires.

Where man is not, nature is barren.

Truth can never be told so as to be
 understood and not to be believed.

Enough! or Too much.

      *   *   *
The ancient poets animated all sensible
 objects with Gods and Geniuses, calling
 them by the names and adorning them with
 properties of woods, rivers, mountains, lakes,
 cities, nations, and whatever their enlarged 
 and numerous senses could perceive.

And particularly they studied the Genius of each
 city and country, placing it under its mental deity.

Till a system was formed, which some took
 advantage of and enslaved the vulgar by 
 attempting to realize or abstract the mental
 deities from their objects.

Thus began Priesthood.

Choosing forms of worship from poetic tales.

And at length they pronounced that the Gods
 had ordered such things.

Thus men forgot that all deities reside
 in the human breast.