“Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius
“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment
“Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works
“The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth
“The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.
“Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed
“We travel through time as through a country filled with many wild and empty wastes, which we would fain hurry over, that we may arrive at those several little settlements or imaginary points of rest which are dispersed up and down in it
“None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free
“The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy; but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted: thence proceeds mawkishness