~Imagination.~--We are all of us imaginative in some form or other, for
images are the brood of desire.--_George Eliot._
A vile imagination, once indulged, gets the key of our minds, and can
get in again very easily, whether we will or no, and can so return as to
bring seven other spirits with it more wicked than itself; and what may
follow no one knows.--_Spurgeon._
He who has imagination without learning has wings and no
feet.--_Joubert._
No man will be found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes
tyrannize, and force him to hope or fear beyond the limits of sober
probability.--_Johnson._
~Imitation.~--Imitators are a servile race.--_Fontaine._
Imitation causes us to leave natural ways to enter into artificial ones;
it therefore makes slaves.--_Dr. Vinet._
"Name to me an animal, though never so skillful, that I cannot imitate!"
So bragged the ape to the fox. But the fox replied, "And do thou name to
me an animal so humble as to think of imitating thee."--_Lessing._
~Immortality.~--When I consider the wonderful activity of the mind, so
great a memory of what is past, and such a capacity of penetrating into
the future; when I behold such a number of arts and sciences, and such a
multitude of discoveries thence arising; I believe and am firmly
persuaded that a nature which contains so many things within itself
cannot be mortal.--_Cicero._
Whatsoever that be within us that feels, thinks, desires, and animates,
is something celestial, divine, and consequently
imperishable.--_Aristotle._
The spirit of man, which God inspired, cannot together perish with this
corporeal clod.--_Milton._
All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are
immortal and divine.--_Socrates._
What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things
fly to their native seat.--_Marcus Antoninus._