"Ideas are, in truth, force." — Henry James

My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk

Source: Letters of John Keats (1817-1820)

Memory is the diary that we all carry around with us

Source: The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)

An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.

Source: The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902)

Four seasons fill the measure of the year; there are four seasons in the mind of man

Source: The Human Seasons (1818)

A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.

Source: The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902)

Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud

Source: The Spectator, no. 225 (1711)

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