Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed.

No man ever made a great discovery without the exercise of the imagination.

If you feel yourself to be above the mass, speak so as to raise the mass to the height of your argument.

To one man a stream is so much water-power, to another a rendezvous for lovers.

Remember that every drop of rain that falls bears into the bosom of the earth a quality of beautiful fertility.

A man may be buoyed up by the efflation of his wild desires to brave any imaginable peril; but he cannot calmly see one he loves braving the same peril; simply because he cannot feel within turn that which prompts another. He sees the danger, and feels not the power that is to overcome it.

Philosophy and Art both render the invisible visible by imagination.