An Impression (n.) should be tested like a coin: the assayer looks, touches, then throws the denarius down and listens again and again till he has a musician's ear — yet the mind yawns and takes any impression that comes.
An Impression (n.) arrives in one of four ways: things are and seem so, are not and seem not, are but do not seem, or are not and yet seem — and the educated person must hit the mark each time.
An Impression (n.) should be stopped at the door and questioned — 'wait, let me see what you are and what you are of' — before it leads you off wherever it likes.
Impression (n.) rightly handled are the one power God shares with us, the one he himself is happy by; freedom, serenity and all virtue follow.
Impression (n.) that are disagreeable should be met with one sentence: 'You are an impression, and not at all what you appear to be.'