“Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects; that of the other, like enlarging monsters with a microscope.” Contrasting how love and melancholy enlarge the small things of life · Essay, Deaths of Little Children, The Indicator (1820) Affection Melancholy Perception
“There are two worlds: the world that we can measure with line and rule, and the world we feel with our hearts and imaginations.” Distinguishing measurable reality from the realm of feeling and imagination · Men, Women, and Books (1847) Imagination Perception Reality
