I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given, the mind rests satisfied, and the imagination loses the desire to use its own wings.
Source: In The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection, AApex Software, 1994.
-- Thomas Bailey Aldrich, (Nov 11 1836-1907), US poet, writer, editor; He was best known for his semi-autobiographical novel, Story of a Bad Boy, 1870.