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Women have much more heart and much more imagination than men; hence, fancy often allures them.

These are the gloomy comparisons of a disturbed imagination; the melancholy madness of poetry, without the inspiration.

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet. [Fr., Celui qui a de l'imagination sans erudition a des ailes, et n'a pas de pieds.]

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

Scarcely any degree of judgment is sufficient to restrain the imagination from magnifying that on which it is long detained.

It is the divine attribute of the imagination, that it is irrepressible, unconfinable; that when the real world is shut out, it can create a world for itself, and with a necromantic power can conjure up glorious shapes and forms, and brilliant visions to make solitude populous, and irradiate the gloom of a dungeon.

Imagination is the organ through which the soul within us recognizes a soul without us; the spiritual eye by which the mind perceives and converses with the spiritualities of nature under her material forms; which tends to exalt even the senses into soul by discerning a soul in the objects of sense.

He paints a dolphin in the woods, a boar in the waves. [Lat., Delphinum sylvis appingit, fluctibus aprum.]

Seem'd washing his hand with invisible soap In imperceptible water.

Such is the power of imagination, that even a chimerical pleasure in expectation affects us more than a solid pleasure in possession.

To build castles in Spain.