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.

Never cut what you can untie.

When credulity comes from the heart it does no harm to the intellect.

Without duty, life is sort of boneless; it cannot hold itself together.

There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.

All disputation makes the mind deaf; and when people are deaf, I am dumb.

Be saving, but not at the cost of all liberality. Have the soul of a king and the hand of a wise economist.