A thought is a thing as real as a cannonball. — Joseph Joubert

"What man knows only through feeling can be explained only through enthusiasm."

"One always adds a little of ones soul to what one thinks."

"You go to truth by way of poetry and I go to poetry by way of truth."

"The imagination is an eye where images remain forever."

"Genius begins great works, labor alone finishes them."

"Mediocrity is excellent to the eyes of mediocre people."