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.

All good verses are like impromptus made at leisure.

Liquid, flowing words are the choicest and the best, if language is regarded as music. But when it is considered as a picture, then there are rough words which are very telling, they make their mark.

The mind is the atmosphere of the soul.

All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.

When one has too great a dread of what is impending, one feels some relief when the trouble has come.

Old age was naturally more honored in times when people could not know much more than what they had seen.