“Everything to be imagined is an image of truth.”

“The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.”

“What is now proved was once only imagined.”

“The crow wished everything was black, the Owl, that everything was white.”

“Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.”

“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.”

“Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.”