"Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character." ― James Russell Lowell Topic(s): Imagination More From James Russell Lowell "As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new – and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one a friend." "Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship." "The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions." More In Imagination "In a very alert and bright state of society people learn co-operation by themselves, but in older and quieter conditions of laboring enterprise, such a bill as I propose will point out the way to mutual exertion."― Leland Stanford "In rising financial markets, the world is forever new. The bull or optimist has no eyes for past or present, but only for the future, where streams of revenue play in his imagination."― James Buchan "Sometimes, surely, truth is closer to imagination or to intelligence, to love than to fact? To be accurate is not to be right."― Shirley Hazzard