It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.

It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.

Were it not for imagination, sir, a man would be as happy in the
arms of a chambermaid as read more

Were it not for imagination, sir, a man would be as happy in the
arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable read more

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.

The world is but a canvas to our imagination.

The world is but a canvas to our imagination.

People who love only once in their lives are. . . shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their read more

People who love only once in their lives are. . . shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination.

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real read more

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really there, but read more

Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really there, but just to comprehend those things which 'are' there.