To me this world is all one continued vision of fancy or imagination, and I feel flattered when I am told so. What is it sets Homer, Virgil and Milton in so high a rank of art? Why is the Bible more entertaining and instructive than any other book? Is it not because they are addressed to the imagination, which is spiritual sensation, and but immediately to the understanding or reason?

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Every man who is not an artist is a traitor to his own nature.

The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.

God only acts and is, in existing beings or men.

If others had not been foolish, we should be so.

As we are, so we see.