"There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination."

"To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all."

"Every true genius is bound to be naive."

"I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up."

"Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities.

"It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards."

"Live out of your imagination, not your history."

"The possible's slow fuse is lit, by the Imagination."

"Nothing encourages creativity like the chance to fall flat on one's face."

"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."