Quotes by William Blake

What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.

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

Opposition is true friendship.

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.

Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too.

It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only.

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.

Active Evil is better than Passive Good.