Fanatics are governed rather by imagination than by judgment.

Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896) American author

(Attributed)

This quote was attributed to "Stowe" in the 1913 ed. of Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (itself a reprint of Webster's International Dictionary). It is referenced in quotes as an uncited aphorism in The Unjust Judge (1854).