To substitute judgments of fact for judgments of value is a sign of pedantic and borrowed criticism.

The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.

The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.

It is characteristic of spontaneous friendship to take on first, without enquiry and almost at first sight, the unseen doings and unspoken sentiments of our friends; the parts known give us evidence enough that the unknown parts cannot be much amiss.

The habit of looking for beauty in everything makes us notice the shortcomings of things, our sense, hungry for complete satisfaction, misses the perfection it demands.

Men become superstitious, not because they have too much imagination, but because they are not aware that they have any.

There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far.