A lover is often most unjustly ridiculed for investing the one for whom he has a passion, with qualities and feelings that they may not in reality possess; but in this, as in most cases, the world delights to judge unkindly; for it ought not to be overlooked that he is merely clothing the idol of his affections with his own beautiful conceptions of what one should be--transferring to them a superiority of sentiment which, in fact, belongs to himself, since it must have existed in his own mind before it could have been brought forward to adorn that of another. The pleasures of the world are all in imagination, else what a curse would existence be!
- Charles William Day
* gender pronouns were modified from the original text
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