“As creation was the result of eternal and infinite wisdom, justice, goodness, and truth, and effected by infinite power, it is like its great author, mysterious to us.”

Source: The Doctrine of the Mean, pp. 124–125

As quoted in Draper's Book of Quotations for the Christian World (1992) by Edythe Draper

Source: Biographia Literaria (1817), Ch. XIII

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 421.

footnote, p. 15
1916 -1920, Autobiography', 1918

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 32.

1 September 1875, page 226
John of the Mountains, 1938
Context: How infinitely superior to our physical senses are those of the mind! The spiritual eye sees not only rivers of water but of air. It sees the crystals of the rock in rapid sympathetic motion, giving enthusiastic obedience to the sun's rays, then sinking back to rest in the night. The whole world is in motion to the center. So also sounds. We hear only woodpeckers and squirrels and the rush of turbulent streams. But imagination gives us the sweet music of tiniest insect wings, enables us to hear, all round the world, the vibration of every needle, the waving of every bole and branch, the sound of stars in circulation like particles in the blood. The Sierra canyons are full of avalanche debris — we hear them boom again, for we read past sounds from present conditions. Again we hear the earthquake rock-falls. Imagination is usually regarded as a synonym for the unreal. Yet is true imagination healthful and real, no more likely to mislead than the coarser senses. Indeed, the power of imagination makes us infinite.

Source: Attributed, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 262.