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

Personal experience is the basis of all real literature.

Literature delivers tidings of the world within and the world without.

Vehemence without feeling is but rant.

The object of Literature is to instruct, to animate, or to amuse.

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

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.