How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture.

The imagination is the liberty of the mind It is intrpeid and eager and the extreme of its achievement lies in abstraction.

It is the belief and not the god that counts.

Frogs eat Butterflies, Snakes eat Frogs, Hogs eat Snakes, Men eat Hogs.

...after a night spent writing poetry, one is almost happy to hear the milkman at the door.

To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.

So, too, if, to our surprise, we should meet one of these morons whose remarks are so conspicuous a part of the folklore of the world of the radio--remarks made without using either the tongue or the brain, spouted much like the spoutings of small whales--we should recognize him as below the level of nature but not as below the level of the imagination.