Imagination, where it is truly creative, is a faculty, and not a quality; it looks before and after, it gives the form that makes all the parts work together harmoniously toward a given end, its seat is in the higher reason, and it is efficient only as a servant of the will. Imagination, as it is too often misunderstood, is mere fantasy, the image-making power, common to all who have the gift of dreams.

Earth's noblest thing,-a woman perfected.

I don't believe in princerple, But oh I du in interest.

Better one bite at forty, of truths bitter rind, than the hot wine that gushed from the vintage of twenty.

Over all life broods Poesy, like the calm blue sky with its motherly, rebuking face. She is the great reformer, and where the love of her is strong and healthy, wickedness and wrong cannot long prevail.

The true ideal is not opposed to the real but lies in it; and blessed are the eyes that find it.

There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.