imagination
“Even in the familiar there can be surprise and wonder.”
“You have your brush, you have your colors, you paint paradise, then in you go.”
“I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart’s affections and the truth of Imagination.”
“Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.”
“Happiness is not an ideal of reason but of imagination.”
“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
“He who has imagination without learning has wings and no feet.”
“Shut your eyes and see.”
“The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.”
“Castles in the air—they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build also.”
“Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.”
“Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
“If you think this universe is bad, you should see some of the others.”
“Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.”
“I dwell in Possibility—”
“The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts.”
“You take delight not in a city’s seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours.”
“Arriving at each new city, the traveler finds again a past of his that he did not know he had.”
“The traveller sees what he sees; the tourist sees what he has come to see.”
“Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”