Anything a man can imagine, another can create

External objects produce decided effects upon the brain. A man shut up between four walls soon loses the power to associate words and ideas together. How many prisoners in solitary confinement become idiots, if not mad, for want of exercise for the thinking faculty!

He must have travelled everywhere, at least in the spirit.

We now know most things that can be measured in this world, except the bounds of human ambition!

Scent is the soul of flowers, and sea flowers, as splendid as they may be, have no soul!

The Great Architect of the universe built it of good firm stuff.

Oh, figures!' answered Ned. 'You can make figures do whatever you want.