There is no vague general capability in men. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

The energies of the soul slumber in the vague reveries of hope. [ Mme. Guizot ]

Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood. [ Sterne ]

Like a large heart overflowing with an impotent and vague love, the universe is ceaselessly in the agony of transformation. [ Renan ]

To me, truth is not some vague, foggy notion. Truth is real. And, at the same time, unreal. Fiction and fact and everything in between, plus some things I can't remember, all rolled into one big thing. This is truth, to me. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

Truth does not consist in minute accuracy of detail, but in conveying a right impression; and there are vague ways of speaking that are truer than strict facts would be. When the Psalmist said, "Rivers of water run down mine eyes, because men keep not thy law," he did not state the fact but he stated a truth deeper than fact and truer. [ Dean Alford ]

It is not so much in buying pictures as in being pictures, that you can encourage a noble school. The best patronage of art is not that which seeks for the pleasures of sentiment in a vague ideality, nor for beauty of form in a marble image, but that which educates your children into living heroes, and binds down the flights and the fondnesses of the heart into practical duty and faithful devotion. [ Ruskin ]