“Newspapers have roughly the same relationship to life as fortune-tellers to metaphysics”

“I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.”

“I have never yet been able to perceive how anything can be known for truth by consecutive reasoning - and yet it must be”

“The real truths are those that can be invented”

“What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.”

“The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth”