Whatever lies beyond the limits of experience, and claims another origin than that of induction and deduction from established data, is illegitimate. - George Henry Lewes

The history of the race is but that of the individual "writ large".

No deeply-rooted tendency was ever extirpated by adverse argument. Not having originally been founded on argument, it cannot be destroyed by logic.

I wish to call special attention to the psychological fact, that fairies and demons, remote as they are from experience, are not created by a more vigorous effort of imagination than milk maids and poachers. The intensity of vision in the artist and of vividness in his creations are the sole tests of his imaginative power.