“Our supper is plain but we are very wonderful.”

“The truly adult view [...] is that our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it. And we can make it very wonderful indeed.”

“although we very clearly see the sun, we ought not therefore to determine that it is only of the size which our sense of sight presents; and we may very distinctly imagine the head of a lion joined to the body of a goat, without being therefore shut up to the conclusion that a chimaera exists; for it is not a dictate of reason that what we thus see or imagine is in reality existent; but it plainly tells us that all our ideas or notions contain in them some truth.”

“The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.”

“Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.”

“I found plain truth very interesting.”