“What is now proved was once only imagined.”

“We travel through time as through a country filled with many wild and empty wastes, which we would fain hurry over, that we may arrive at those several little settlements or imaginary points of rest which are dispersed up and down in it”

“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment”

“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”

“Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.”

“Man's desires are limited by his perceptions; none can desire what he has not perceived.”