Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.

Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.

Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.

Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.

Virtue is insufficient temptation.

Virtue is insufficient temptation.

Analysis brings no curative powers in its train; it merely makes us conscious of the existence of an evil, which, read more

Analysis brings no curative powers in its train; it merely makes us conscious of the existence of an evil, which, oddly enough, is consciousness.

Every man's memory is his private literature.

Every man's memory is his private literature.

Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart.

Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart.

Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

The way I see things, the way I see life, I see it as a struggle. And there's a great read more

The way I see things, the way I see life, I see it as a struggle. And there's a great deal of reward I have gained coming to that understanding -- that existence is a struggle.

Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master read more

Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.