“Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.”
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There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself in no wise hath she need of an author.
Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.
The imagination is the spur of delights... all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
There is no more lively sensation than that of pain its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.