Fancy, an animal faculty, is very different from imagination, which is intellectual. The former is passive; but the latter is active and creative. Children, the weak minded, and the timid are full of fancy. Men and women of intellect, of great intellect, are alone possessed of great imagination.

We measure minds by their stature; it would be better to esteem them by their beauty.

One man finds in religion his literature and his science, another finds in it his joy and his duty.

Children must be rendered reasonable, but not reasoners. The first thing to teach them is that it is reasonable for them to obey, and unreasonable for them to dispute.

Nothing which does not transport is poetry. The lyre is a winged instrument.

Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.

Thoughts there are, that need no embodying, no form, no expression. It is enough to hint at them vaguely; a word, and they are heard and seen.