"Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is..." - Quote by Victor Hugo

“Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.”

“A wedding is not house-keeping.”

“Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars.”

“Men are of three different capacities: one understands intuitively; another understands so far as it is explained; and a third understands neither of himself nor by explanation. The first is excellent, the second, commendable, and the third, altogether useless.”

“Now be sincere; did you admire me for my impertinence?" "For the liveliness of your mind, I did.”

“To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.”

“The only people who hate escapism are jailers.”

“The imagination, give it the least license, dives deeper and soars higher than Nature goes.”

“As I never saw my father or my mother, and never saw any likeness of either of them (for their days were long before the days of photographs), my first fancies regarding what they were like, were unreasonably derived from their tombstones. The shape of the letters on my father's, gave me an odd idea that he was a square, stout, dark man, with curly black hair. From the character and turn of the inscription, "Also Georgiana Wife of the Above", I drew a childish conclusion that my mother was freckled and sickly.”