C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.
Reality
Things are sullen, and will be as they are, whatever we think them or wish them to be.
Cudworth.
Reality surpasses imagination; and we see, breathing, brightening, and moving before our eyes sights dearer to our hearts than any we ever beheld in the land of sleep.
Goethe.