The problems of the world cannot possible be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affection and the truth of imagination.
What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.
I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.
The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted thence proceeds mawkishness.
Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul
Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.
There is a budding morrow in midnight.
The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing -- to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.
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