Imagination is not the talent of some men, but is the health of every man

If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods

Men in all ways are better than they seem

The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze

It is the ignorant and childish part of man that is the fighting part

A man is a little thing while he works by and for himself; but when he gives voice to the rules of love and justice, he is godlike