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Imagination (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the medium for the process of infinitizing not a capacity, but the capacity for all capacities.

Imagination (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the natural rouge of the fair sex.

Imagination (n.) acts ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠inversely to God: the Lord satisfies the stomach before the eye, but imagination sates you merely by talk of the banquet.

Imagination (n.) can ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠beautify all things as no other power can — and can disturb everything as profoundly when it fails one on contact with real life.

Imagination (n.) can ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠be supernaturally strong — that is, womanishly weak — in stirring infatuations and marvellous inventions, while a rift in one's nature leaves one like a paralytic unable to support his own body.

Imagination (n.) breaks ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the lucky man's religious guarantee: it paints suffering in its most terrible form, and at that instant a voice says, "This might also happen to thee" — and the chivalrous answer, "Why should I be exempted more than others?"