The idle always have a mind to do something. Vauvenargues.
The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes. Ward Beecher.
The ignorant peasant without fault is greater 15 than the philosopher with many. Goldsmith.
The Iliad and the Shakespeare are tame to him who hears the rude but homely incidents of the road from every traveller. Thoreau.
The "Iliad" of Homer is no fiction, but a ballad history, the heart of it burning with enthusiastic, ill-informed belief. Carlyle.
The ill that's wisely feared is half withstood, / And fear of bad is the best foil to good. Quarles.
The image of God cut in ebony, i.e., the negro. Fuller.
The imagination, give it the least license, dives 20 deeper and soars higher than Nature does. Thoreau.
The imagination is a fine faculty; yet I like not when she works on what has actually happened; the airy forms she creates are welcome as things of their own kind; but uniting with reality she produces often nothing but monsters, and seems to me, in such cases, to fly into direct variance with reason and common-sense. Goethe.
The imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth. Bible.