Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Even the highest forms of sacrificial worship present much that is repulsive to modern ideas, and in particular it requires an effort to reconcile our imagination to the bloody ritual which is prominent in almost every religion which has a strong sense of sin. – William Robertson Smith

The great instrument of moral good is the imagination. – Percy Bysshe Shelley