“The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.
“Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
“Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
“Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
“Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed
“We travel through time as through a country filled with many wild and empty wastes, which we would fain hurry over, that we may arrive at those several little settlements or imaginary points of rest which are dispersed up and down in it
“Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius
“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment