The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.

There is no mistake so great as the mistake of not going on.

May God us keep From Single vision and Newton's sleep.

God and His Priest and King,...make up a heaven of our misery.

The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.

Some will say, Is not God alone the Prolific? I answer, God only Acts & Is, in existing beings or Men.

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?