The eye sees more than the heart knows.

The person who does not believe in miracles surely makes it certain that he or she will never take part in one.

The world of imagination is the world of eternity. It is the divine bosom into which we shall all go after the death of the vegetated [i.e. mortal] body. This world of imagination is infinite and eternal, whereas the world of generation is finite and temporal. There exist in that eternal world the eternal realities of everything which we see reflected in this vegetable glass of nature.

Men are admitted into heaven not because they have curbed and governed their passions or have no passions, but because they have cultivated their understandings. The treasures of heaven are not negations of passion, but realities of intellect, from which all the passions emanate uncurbed in their eternal glory.

The busy bee has no time for sorrow.

For Mercy has a human heart Pity, a human face: And Love, the human form divine, And Peace, the human dress.

To the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.