When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
Imagination is a very high sort of seeing.
That which we do not call education is more precious than that which we call so.
The imaginative faculty of the soul must be fed with objects immense and eternal.
If we tire of the saints, Shakspeare is our city of refuge.
A part of fate is the freedom of man. Forever wells up the impulse of choosing and acting in his soul.