Nothing can be truer than fairy wisdom…. It is true as sunbeams… – Douglas Jerrold, “Our Honeymoon: An Apology and An Explanation,” in Punch, Volxx

No child but must remember laying his head in the grass, staring into the infinitesimal forest and seeing it grow populous with fairy armies. – Robert Louis Stevenson, Essays in The Art of Writing

There never was a merry world since the fairies left off dancing, and the Parson left conjuring. – John Selden, "Parson," Table Talk, 1689